Perhaps so. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to extend an old phrase to "we are what we read". I have seen far too many LLM related discussions break down into politics, philosophy and one too many anecdotes that amount to hearsay, both here and out.

TFA is so bland that it had no reason to attract the amount of attention it did and yet, here we are, engaging under the same mundane conversation. I should get back to my hobbies.