It's a massive hype bubble unrivaled in scale by anything that has ever come before it, so all the AI providers have huge vested interests in making it seem like these systems are "sentient". All of the marketing is riddled with anthropomorphization (is that a word?). "It's like a Junior!", "It's like your secretary!", "But humans also do X!" etc.
The other day on the Claude 4 announcement post [1], people were talking about Claude "threatening people" that wanted to shut it down or whatever. It's absolute lunacy, OpenAI did the same with GPT 2, and now the Claude team is doing the exact same idiotic marketing stunts and people are still somehow falling for it.