[dylukes]

> this isn’t actually correct terminology

This entire post could have been reduced to this (reasonably correct I think) claim.

> if we recognize that what LLMs are really doing is confabulating, we can try to compare and contrast their behaviour with that of humans

Except that the goal for the above is hopelessly misguided. If your focus in making any useful claim about LLMs or RNNs/GANs more broadly is how similar they are to human behavior you're already way off the path.

tl;dr reasonable claim, reasonable conclusion, but entirely indefensible and superstitious motivation