Yes people are still anthropomorphizing AI. It's a subtle difference talking about their learned judgments of reality v. some sort of human-like logical decision-making process, and that's where most people get tripped up. The AI learns what you feed it. Garbage in, garbage out. The initialization of its world model is arguably the most important thing, and the hardest to make objective. Every decision following that, assuming it learns in an online manner, will be conditioned on its previous decisions since it can only learn about the things it experiences, i.e., chooses to engage with and how.