I see no conflict. He's explaining why he has a visceral reaction. He makes no attempt to suggest that this is a logical conclusion. Des goûts et des couleurs,

I see no conflict. He's explaining why he has a visceral reaction. He makes no attempt to suggest that this is a logical conclusion. Des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas. Nor does the assertion that the LLM is "making a pretense" and "posing as" human anthropomorphize them beyond the level of anthropomorphism that was deliberately built into them as part of their design.