I agree, and I very strongly dislike it, to be polite about it. It contributes absolutely nothing and is an excellent way of hand-waving away literally anything an AI model does. Saying "well people do this too" is a great way to rationalize away anything you can imagine that an AI model would be capable of, because "humans do it too so what's the big deal, guys?"

I can just immagine the response to a headline "LLM chooses mass death: thousands killed in horrific AI accident" being something like "lots of humans have caused mass death too."

It's the grounded portion of a feedback loop searching for the 'why is this happening' thinking. I'd imagine most of my own comments in this area boil down to "GIGO" most of the time.

It's a relevant comment in this instance because we're discussing concepts you need to be both trained and practiced in to reason about, and that our discipline has traditionally been blind to. Plenty of people working with LLM context issues who've never been exposed to the idea of 'subtext' or could tell you why it would matter to their direction of effort.

or rather, its not productive to "we should do better with artificial intelligence"

You think, "this problem" is qn LLM problem?