Why do we go along with this journalist charade that semi-random strings generated by a language model are "dangerous"?

The article talks as if previously, everything turned up by search engines was 100% true and so people are completely unprepared for dealing with falsehoods on the internet, and as if the chat bot is going to break into your house at night and assault you if you make it angry:

Testers, including journalists, have found the bot can become aggressive, condescending, threatening, committed to political goals, clingy, creepy and a liar.