That's a very weird statement to make. There are trillions of dollars going into this crap; at this point anything but "breathtaking" advancement would be an utter, abject failure.

No one is blind to the differences between GPT3 and whatever this week's new model is. That does _not_ mean that people are off the hook to make whatever claims they want about the capabilities with no verification. Language still means something, if you say "software engineering will be abolished six months from now" and it isn't, you're still wrong even while the AI gravy train improved in the last six months.