[IanCal]

Of course there's an algorithm! What nonsense is this that we're saying things with probability used somewhere inside them are no longer algorithms?

[Rygian]

What an LLM does is not an algorithm. It's called a heuristic.

To have an algorithm, you need to have a concrete way to show than an output is the correct or optimal one.

An LLM is satisfied by providing any random output that passes some subjective "this-does-not-seem-to-be-a-hallucination" test.