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They simply appear to "exhibit intelligent processing". The intelligence is in what created the data. It's a surface that's being traversed in a complex way. The LLM doesn't 'understand' that surface in any way, it just traces a path on it and reguritates apparent understanding. I'll grant it's eerily convincing.

'Fooling' something, essentially to deceive or trick, is defined as causing someone to believe an untruth. LLMs don't hold beliefs (neither do mechanistic processes), and they aren't a someone.

You can widen out the definition of the word but that generally makes language weaker - interestingly, semantic drift is a big issue for LLM's.

We have different opinions, and that's fine. Have a good day.