I mean, that seems like the obvious explanation. Most training material that LLMs have about 'AIs' (in the actual thinking machine sense) would be sci-fi, and it's an extremely common narrative.
He knows for sure because he’s omnipotent. HN commenters are experts on everything. They were right about driverless cars and how it will never come to fruition and they were right about how useless vibe coding is. This HNer here is also right about everything as well .