"... is deeply prone to just telling people what they want to hear"

Noooo, nononono... It's specifically made to just tell people what they want to hear, in the general sense. That's the entire point of LLMs. They are not thinking. They have zero logic. They just "say" what is a mathematically agreeable segment of words in response.

IMO, these articles, and humanity's limp response to "AI" in general, only go to show how utterly inept and devoid of logic most people themselves are...