In many ways yes, but more interesting to this subject in particular: no. We are actually underestimating the human involvement in LLM behavior by personifying

In many ways yes, but more interesting to this subject in particular: no. We are actually underestimating the human involvement in LLM behavior by personifying the LLM itself. An LLM can only "exhibit" the behavior that humans encode into text. We encode explicit behavior, including symbols and grammar, and we encode implicit behavior, including narrative and logic. An LLM blindly models the patterns of text, but doing that exposes the power of the patterns themselves. The only problem is that an LLM can't determine which patterns are useful and which patterns aren't.