I get that it's cool to hate on how AI is being shoved in our faces everywhere and I agree with that sentiment, but the technology is better than what you're giving it credit for.
You don't have to diminish the accomplishments of the actual people who studied and built these impressive things to point out that business are bandwagoning and rushing to get to market to satisfy investors. like with most technologies it's capitalism that's the problem.
LLMs emulate neural structures and have incredible natural language parsing capabilities that we've never even come close to accomplishing before. The prompt hacks alone are an incredibly interesting glance at how close these things come to "understanding." They're more like social engineering than any other kind of hack.