It's not just "people in the street" though. It includes career technologists who have dived deep into LLMs. I know one who says things like, perhaps humans aren't all that intelligent after all, reasoning that we're doing something very similar to an LLM.
I know but cannot prove that an LLM lacks a human like mind, but so much of what is said implies that it's not that different and encourages conflation, and there are already dangerous legal precedents built on such lies.
@simon