It's pretty clear that when discussing the behavior of AI tools, we should all endavor to use precise language, clarify or at least use quotation makes to nod to ambiguity, and eventually get some kind of consensus understanding of what is and is not being implied or asserted or argued through use of language necessarily borrowed from our experience, with humans (and our own institutions, and animals, and the other familiar categories of agent in our world).
The most useful TLDR is use quotation marks to side-step a detour during discussion into a reexamination of what sort of agency and model of mind we should have assume for LML or other tools.
Example: ChatGPT "lies" by design
This acknowledges a whole raft of contentious issues without getting stuck on them.