i don't think everything that comes out like this is marketing. however, i do think that these companies are largely staffed by "true believers" (anthropic especially) -- people who are so lost in the sauce and embedded in very specific, very peculiar, sf-based rationalist circles where the ai apocalypse is a foregone conclusion.

i understand that these models are powerful and pose certain risks. i use them daily for work and the pace of improvement has been pretty remarkable. that said, i don't buy for a second the borderline-religious proclamations coming from some of these researchers, even if i believe that they are making these claims in earnest