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That changes nothing on the hyping of science fiction "risk" of those intelligences "escaping the box" and killing us all.

The argument for regulation in that case would be because of the socio-economic risk of taking people's jobs, essentially.

So, again: pure regulatory capture.

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There's no denying this is regulatory capture by OpenAI to secure their (gigantic) bag and that the "AI will kill us all" meme is not based in reality and plays on the fact that the majority of people do not understand LLMs.

I was simply explaining why I believe your perspective is not represented in the discussions in the media, etc. If these models were not getting incredibly good at mimicking intelligence, it would not be possible to play on people's fears of it.

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