If you're autoconfirmed (account more than 4 days old with at least 10 edits), you can create new pages without going through the drafts/approval phase first. But they would still usually be swiftly deleted if not following policies and guidelines.

I would say it's good journalism to take the claim of "general purpose" intelligence by AI companies at face value and see that it doesn't hold up. Making outlandish claims allows for silly comparisons

Yes, that also caught me as a bizarre thing to say. Sadly low bar for sports journalism