One could spend all day every day telling folks using "mental activity words" to describe LLM output that they are wrong.

It does not "know", it does not "think", it does not "guess", it does not "figure out", it does not "reason", it does not "decide", it does not "feel", it does not "opine", it does not "believe", it does not "see", it does not "lie", it does not do *anything* you'd use a mental activity word for.

And every time they do it, anyway? They make the world just a little worse.

@GeePawHill the problem is partly that we use these words to describe other things, and computers in general, _by analogy_.

the car doesn't like deisel. the program rejects jpg files over 10mb.