I work with AI as well and it can help, but it can also hurt. I think any objective person agrees with that.

There is another option to consider. What if they heard someone else say it and they believed it.

Now they go around, like many insecure people do, shouting about their unfounded take. Begging the universe to correct them or give them a good reason why they arent informed.

Then what usually happens with people who suffer from this type of short ordered thinking is, they realize they can't walk it back without social consequences because of the shouting they have done. So they just double down on it and find ways to live with the cognitive dissonance. Anthropic, openai, etc make billions off of people like this.

Because they propagate the BS advertising to people who don't know better, and then spend more money to try to make it real.