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To lie requires intent to deceive. LLMs do not have intents, they are statistical language algorithms.
Congratulations, you are technically correct. But does this have any relevance for the point of this article? They clearly show that LLMs will provide false and misleading information when that brings them closer to their goal.
So AI is just like most people. Holy cow did we achieve computer sentience?!
The fact that they lack sentience or intentions doesn't change the fact that the output is false and deceptive. When I'm being defrauded, I don't care if the perpetrator hides behind an LLM or not.
It's rather difficult to get people who are willing to lie and commit fraud for you. And even if you do, it will leave evidence.
As this article shows, AIs are the ideal mob henchmen because they will do the most heinous stuff while creating plausible deniability for their tech bro boss. So no, AI is not "just like most people".