Theory: Mainstem media freaked out about video games and social media because their kids were doing it and the parents were baffled by it.
But LLM's are marketed to adults more than teens. So the media sees them as Important Engine of Innovation rather than Scourge of the Youth.
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines