Comment by IAmGraydon

This is precisely the question I’ve been asking, and the lack of an answer makes me think that this entire thing is one very elaborate, very convincing magic trick. LLMs can be better thought of search engines with a very intuitive interface for all existing, publicly available human knowledge rather than actually intelligent. I think all of the big players know this, and are feeding the illusion to extract as much cash as possible before the farce becomes obvious.