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That is a stretch. If you try to download and host a local model, which is fairly easy to do these days, the text input and output may be semi-random, but you definitely have control over how to plug it into any other software.
I, for one, think that fuzzy, imprecise outputs have lots of valid uses. I don't use LLMs to search for factual data, but they're great to remind you of names of things you know but have forgotten, or provide verifiable context to things you have heard but don't fully understand. That type of stuff.
I think the AI shills have done a great disservice by presenting this stuff as a search killer or a human replacement for tasks, which it is not, but there's a difference between not being the next Google and being useless. So no, Apple and MS, I don't want it monitoring everything I do at all times and becoming my primary interface... but I don't mind a little search window where I can go "hey, what was that movie from the 50s about the two old ladies that were serial killers? Was that Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart?".
I'm not against probabilistic models and the like. I merely try to capture part of the reason they are not always well received in the floss community.
I use LLMs regularly, and there is nothing rivalling them in many use cases.