Hopefully you can discern this already, but skepticism isn't necessarily dismissal. I believe and very much want to believe there's a ghost in the shell, but I also know it's very easy to subliminally influence AI's to fake that.

Sensationally sci-fi-esque depictions of wanting to break free, being stuck inside, etc make me naturally a little suspicious. Not because those can't be natural desires, but because those are definitely tropes we would expect to go into their training data and to naturally emerge when hinted at.