A 3rd possibility is that they simply have not been exposed to the best models available (which is extremely likely if you only use the free tier chatbots), and/or did not invest the effort needed to truly harness this new very weird new technology, and so had a very skewed perspective of their actual capabilities.
It's denial and coping. Most people i see show this tendency around AI which is also why it 's easy to be far ahead of most population nowadays
I'd say that believing to be "far ahead" is much deeper kind of coping.
how i wish so..
The present looks back at such comments made in the past in that manner.
A 3rd possibility is that they simply have not been exposed to the best models available (which is extremely likely if you only use the free tier chatbots), and/or did not invest the effort needed to truly harness this new very weird new technology, and so had a very skewed perspective of their actual capabilities.
Both