These are not contradictory statements to me. Even if I don't anthropomorphize LLMs, the damn things anthropomorphize themselves and I have to deal with it. "Posing" is the key word.
1. I speak about it as if it were a person because I have embedded some beliefs and expectations which are wrong.
2. I speak about it as if it were a person just because that's just how the English language works when describing complicated things.
Similarly, the faceless mannequin in the clothing store "poses" as a person, and even "beckons" customers with an outstretched arm, yet nobody on the sidewalk is confused or falls in love [0] with the mannequin.