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==== 4. A concise refutation (if you want a short version) ====

Here is a compact refutation you could use directly on LinkedIn:

: The comparison groups ChatGPT with magical or deceptive artefacts, but it misunderstands what LLMs actually are.
: If you view LLMs through a hermeneutic lens — as systems that generate meaning through contextual interpretation — then they are not oracles, illusions, or mechanical tricks. They are technical participants in the hermeneutic circle: they interpret inputs in light of linguistic tradition and generate meaning through dialogue.
: That makes them far closer to Gadamerian understanding than to Aladdin’s lamp or the Mechanical Turk, and the analogy collapses.

If you want, I can also give you:
* a sharper, more polemical version you can post;
* a scholarly version referencing Heidegger, Gadamer, or Ricoeur;
* or a more analytic breakdown distinguishing “illusion,” “magic,” and “hermeneutic systems.”