Most humans only know how to repeat short, smart sounding talking points. It makes sense that AI have been able to replicate that. Ai chat bots sound like they're saying a lot, but really say anything. Political speech writers will be out of a job first.
Someone once posted that they got GPT to produce much higher quality output by instructing it to make an argument, critique that argument, make a new argument with the critique in mind, and so on.
Maybe stable, precise reasoning is just a result of multiple language models arguing with each other.