There's easily a 10:1 ratio of "it doesn't understand it's just fancy autocomplete" to the alternative, in spite of published peer reviewed research from Harvard and MIT researchers months ago demonstrating even a simplistic GPT model builds world representations from which it draws its responses and not simply frequency guessing.

Watch the livestream!?! But why would they do that because they already know it's not very impressive and not worth their time outside commenting on it online.

I imagine this is coming from some sort of monkey brain existential threat rationalization ("I'm a smart monkey and no non-monkey can do what I do"). Or possibly just an overreaction to very early claims of "it's alive!!!" in an age when it was still just a glorified Markov chain. But whatever the reason, it's getting old very fast.