Why are you so ready to believe they're stochastic parrots when they've done so many novel behaviors?
Even primitive versions of this technology (and gpt is already primitive), remember move 37 of alphago? It was unprecedented, we're far too willing to believe that nothing is happening in the world and there's nothing to worry about, but there's plenty of warning signs, laughing these things off as stochastic parrots is genuinely harmful to society. It's also just blatant misinformation.
Alpha go isn't an LLM: It's a reinforcement learning model combined with a Monte Carlo search. It uses deep learning and is fundamentally a different method of machine learning.
LLMs are definitely dangerous: the danger is that people believe them too much. It's that CEOs believe they can replace their writers, it's that the general public can generate bullshit faster than ever. They have irradiated the online sphere just like the nukes of the 40s irradiated all steel.
An LLM doesn't think. It takes input and runs it through statistical layers until it returns output. It doesn't learn either: the input does not change the model. Models are tuned, tweaked and generally curated to get the best experience. All experiments with letting a model be exposed to the public and "learn" directly have gone horribly wrong.
You should do some research before saying it's misinformation. Take this article where the term stochastic parrot was coined by one of the greatest AI ethicists alive.