Flutterby™! : AI doesn't "digest"?

Comment on a MeFi thread about Apple AI begins:

<blockqutoe>LLM doesn't "digest" ideas. It was handed multi-dimensional word associations as a part of its "training", but it lacks human "reasoning" abilities" to evaluate the word associations it retrieves. ...

And on the one hand, yes, but on the other hand, maybe we have different ideas of the end result of digestion? Because I'm not sure what it does with the nutrition bits, but what's coming out the other end is analogous...