My hope was to shift the conversation away from people disagreeing about words to people understanding each other. When a person reads e.g. "an LLM thinks" I'm

My hope was to shift the conversation away from people disagreeing about words to people understanding each other. When a person reads e.g. "an LLM thinks" I'm pretty sure that person translates it sufficiently well to understand the sentence. It is one thing to use anthropocentric language to refer to something an LLM does. (Like I said above, this is shorthand to make conversation go smoother.) It would be another to take the words literally and extend them -- e.g. to assign other human qualities to an LLM, such as personhood.