AI bros have a vested interest in people believing the hype that we're just around the corner of figuring out AGI or whatever the buzzword of the week is. They

AI bros have a vested interest in people believing the hype that we're just around the corner of figuring out AGI or whatever the buzzword of the week is. They'll anthropomorphize LLMs in a variety of ways, that way people will be more likely to believe it's some kind of magical system that can do everyone's jobs. It's also useful when trying to downplay the harm these systems cause, like the mass theft of literally everything in order to facilitate training (the favorite refrain of "They learn just like humans do!" - By consuming 19 trillion books and then spitting out random words from those books, yeah real humanlike), boiling entire lakes to power training, wasting billions of dollars etc. Many of them are also solipsistic sociopaths that believe everyone else is just a useful idiot that'll help make them fabulously wealthy, so they have to bring everyone else down in order for the AIs to seem useful beyond the initial marketing coolness.