I feel that with LLMs and AI, people are furiously trying to argue the reality they desire into existence. I've never read more articles predicting the future than on this topic (I am guilty of it, too.)
Predicting AGI and all those "complete replacement of jobs" are boring example of this. What's more annoying to me are people who do that arguing into existence about reality they want where AI is completely useless and fake and can't do anything and make you stupid and ten more loudest clickbait titles of recent year
In that story no one said anything until some kid. With this one there's a chorus saying the emperor doesn't have clothes, won't have clothes, see my 2018 paper Emperor's Clothes: A Critical Appraisal and so on.