People have applied "think" to the actions of software for decades. Of course it LLM's don't "think" in the human sense, but "What the output of the model indicates in an approximate way about its current internal state" is a bit long winded...

Maybe people who dont understand technology did, I can see that - my granpa also thought the computer was thinking when the windows hourglass showed up. Today maybe its the case again with the folks who dont know anything about it - you know that meme - ChatGPT always gives me correct answers for the domains I am not an expert in!