"I am a very smart atheist that can not be fooled by fairy tales, therefore LLMs sound like the exact same thing as living brains. I can not be sold a bad bill of goods; my contempt for religion means I believe tech company marketing hype."

EDIT: "Also, tech companies are above superstitious beliefs." https://futurism.com/openai-employees-say-firms-chief-scientist-has-been-making-strange-spiritual-claims

Also, some light reading for those who need it.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09247