> How is this different from a human using an algorithm they have memorized, or reading it from a reference site written by a human and then writing the same formula into a custom one off piece of python code?

And how is _that_ different from making the human memorize a billion weights and do matrix calculations in their head, in order to generate tokens?

How is _that_ different from a hive of bees trained to do the same?

Go ahead, argue these things are all the same ...