People who think LLMs aren't intelligent because they hallucinate and make things up must have never met a bullshitter...

"They constantly make things up!"

Uh huh

"They don't even consider whether they really know the answer!"

Uh huh

"I can't trust what it's telling me!"

Seriously... this is how you should treat everything that people casually say when you ask them to answer your question off the top of their head.