Models are not paranoid or anxious, they do not think or have feelings. I know you're probably using those words as a metaphor but we need to be careful about anthropomorphizing LLMs.
As an accelerationist and transhumanist, no way! These models passed the Turing test years ago. When a thing is indistinguishable from human, it is human. Our brains are, after all, just a collection of learned memetic weights. Just ask the determinists.
They didn't describe the model, they described (accurately) the behaviour. They are useful descriptors of behaviour.