I would disagree with anyone that wants to say they are the same as a natural tree, sure.

I don't believe the term photograph was repurposed when cameras were invented, that example doesn't fit.

More importantly, I argued that neuron has a very specific biological meaning and its a misuse to use the term for what is ultimately running on silicon.

Your claim was that they are neurons, period. You didn't expand on that further which reads as a pretty literal use of the term to me. We're online discussing in text, that reading of your comment could be completely wrong, that's fine. But I stand by my point that what is inside an LLM or a GPU is not a neuron.