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I'm convinced this is why people are so seemingly impressed with AI. It's smarter than the average person because the average person is that ignorant. To these people these things are ungodly smart and because of the puffery they don't feel talked down to which increases their perception of it's intelligence; it tells them how smart and clever they are in a way no sentient entity would ever do.
Yes. Remember that these things have been largely designed and funded by companies who make their money from advertising and marketing. The purpose of advertising and marketing is to convince people of something, whether that thing is actually true or not. They are experts at it, and now they have created software designed to convince people of things, whether it is actually true or not. Then they took all the combined might of their marketing and advertising expertise and infrastructure, including the AI software itself, and set it to the task of convincing people that AI is good and is going to change the world.
And everyone was convinced. Whether it is actually true or not.