Writing it honestly would defeat the whole point of it, that being, to push the narrative that their magical token predictor is conscious. They've been trying this for years now. This video is discussing a paper they published 2 years ago by the way... It's nothing new.

> I’d prefer a more direct claim in a paper

This is not written to be just a paper. The target audience include media and online forums, and then maybe academia.

Edit: typo