It was clear to any serious person from the get go that LLMs only ape intelligence and are a dead end as far as general intelligence is concerned. Trying to discredit this notion this late in the game is akin to wrestling with a pig in the mud. If they want their journalism to make a difference they should be asking why AI boosters like Altman and Amodei are getting away with doing what Neumann and Holmes did but on a much larger scale.