> The language of "generator that stochastically produces the next word" is just not very useful when you're talking about, e.g., an LLM that is answering complex world modeling questions or generating a creative story.

But it isn't modelling. It's been shown time, and time, and time again that LLMs have no internal "model" or "view". This is exactly and precisely why you should not anthropomorphize.

And again, the output of an LLM is, by definition, not "creative". Your saying we should anthropomorphize these models when the examples you give are already doing that.