"when interacting with an LLM in any capacity, remember your own cognitive biases. You often want the response to work, and while generated responses may look good and fit your mental model, it requires increasingly obscene levels of critical evaluation to see through the fluff."

100% this.

Idk about the far-out takes where "AI is an alien lifeform arrived into our present", but the first thing we know about how humans relate to extraterrestrials is: "I want to believe".