[smsm42]

A lot of people confuse access to information with being smart. Because for humans it correlates well - usually the smart people are those that know a lot of facts and can easily manipulate them on demand, and the dumb people are those that can not. LLMs have unique capability of being both very knowledgeable (as in, able to easily access vast quantities of information, way beyond the capabilities of any human, PhD or not) and very dumb, they way a kindergarten kid wouldn't be. It totally confuses all our heuristics.

[CrimsonCape]

The most reasonable assumption is that the CEO is using dishonest rhetoric to upsell the LLM, instead of taking your approach and assuming the CEO is confused about the LLM's capability.

There are savvy people who know when to say "don't tell me that information" because then it is never a lie, simply "I was not aware"