> ...but are using different boundaries for what constitutes "the LLM"

I'll make note that my original comment only used the term "LLM" in the phrases "the LLM companies" and "LLM-based systems". The latter use was in this footnote:

  One might argue that the fundamental nature of LLM-based systems makes this impossible. *If* that were true, then it would mean that these systems are *impossible* to make safe... the *only* safety option available would be to establish comprehensive blacklists, which is simply infeasible.

I acknowledge that my follow-on commentary -the one to which you replied- got sloppy with the terminology. I should have used the phrase "LLM-based systems", rather than "LLMs". I do feel that my original commentary was not at all sloppy with the terminology and made my position on the current state of the safety of the systems sold by the Big LLM Vendors and general understanding of where the bounds of the big pile of linear algebra and the bounds of the I/O to and from that pile lie clear.