Quality of output does not mean that the process is genuine. A well-produced movie with good actors may depict a war better than footage of an actual war, but t

Quality of output does not mean that the process is genuine. A well-produced movie with good actors may depict a war better than footage of an actual war, but that is not evidence of an actual war happening. Statistical LLMs are trying really hard at "acting" to produce output that looks like there is genuine understanding, but there is no understanding going on, regardless of how good the output looks.