Comment by bigbadfeline

> I've literally never heard anyone conflate an agent and a model. Ever.

That's because you know enough to disambiguate on the fly, which isn't true for the majority of the population. In other words, you make assumptions about others based on your own condition.

The concern here isn't that someone doesn't know what they're talking about, it's that many of those listening can be misled by the ambiguous wording of people who know very well what they are doing and can even do it deliberately.

> Like Trump thinking people didn't know about the word groceries or that dumb ends with a b.

Again, you're using yourself as source of assumptions about his audience, and worse, you transfer that to a much more complicated subject with unsettled terminology.