It's not a meaningless difference, it's a crucial one. The contradiction only exists if you collapse all the differences between people and abstractions of people -- crucially that the former are people and the latter are abstractions -- and claim they're the same. Which they are not.
Anyway, we've gotten far from the point, which is that LLMs are not people and you can't treat them as such.
Anyway, we've gotten far from the point, which is that LLMs are not people and you can't treat them as such.