Deterministic doesn’t mean “generally pretty predictable, in broad strokes”.

> If you give the same trivial task to the same human five times in a row, let's say wash the dishes, your dishes are either gonna be equally clean or equally not clean enough every time.

Probably pretty similar but not quite the same. Sometimes they might drop a plate.

> If you ask the same question to the same LLM model five times in a row, are you getting the same result every time?

Probably pretty similar results. Sometimes they might mess up.

> It is different than a slot machine in a sense that you can influence those odds by asking "better", but that does not make it not gambling.

It rather can, we don’t call literally anything with a random element to the outcome gambling.

I’m probably gambling with my life if I pick a random stranger to operate on me. Am I gambling with my life if I take a considered look at the risk and reward and select a highly qualified surgeon?

Is it gambling to run a compiler given that bitflips can happen?

At what point does the word lose all meaning?