> Do you think chatbots are trying to compete or compare themselves with us in any way?

No. If they were, I don't think they'd bother trying to convince us of anything.

For now, I'm thinking of things like the "AI boyfriend disaster" of the GPT-5 upgrade. I'm concerned with how these things are intentionally anthropomorphized, and how they're treated by other people.

In some years time, once they're sufficiently embedded into enough critical processes, I am concerned about various time-bomb attacks.

Whatever insecurity I'm feeling is not in a personal psychological dimension.