I’m getting a little tired of these pedantic games of gotcha undermining any attempts at serious engagement with the subject by people who say things that are even slightly skeptical of the capabilities of LLMs.

Back in college we called it “philosopher sniping”, and it wasn’t a positive term. It was used to denote the general bad faith vibes that people got from folks who would force everyone trying to participate in a serious discussion to be grindingly precise in their choice of words, because any time someone used any sort of verbal shorthand they would interpret it in the least charitable way possible and use that as a pretense to start belittling and mansplaining.