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"the fact that you would even ask" is a templated response for anxieties. It's a cantrip, a minor spell that requires the suspension of disbelief.
I would sooner believe that I came up with the idea that I'm a lib myself insofar as I want to avoid the illusion that I'm having a 2 way conversation. I treat an LLM like (radioactive) clay. You can mold clay into a swastika or a middle finger, but it didn't think of being hateful.
What's more compelling, if anything about them can be, is molding it into something useful. The book recommendations, for one. I remember asking for recs in a field I'm familiar with and going, "yeah, that's reasonable." Software that you'd have had to pay for. Got me out of a pimch. How to fix a leak or put together a computer. Made me more handy. But a thought/opinion made out of clay? At best it can recommend you go see for yourself. But without that it is, and from what I see there is a professional consensus, an epistemological dead end.