You're no different from a medieval peasant who projects a kingly father figure into the heavens. The only difference is, you're familiar with a desktop computer, so that is what you project onto the great mysteries of life.
"That's basically what humans do". Bullshit. A computer makes no distinction between the bits it's flipping. An LLM will not protest if you poison the training data and have it generate gigabytes upon gigabytes of gibberish. The computer runs the algorithm you give it, regardless of the output. The meaning comes from people, and you can't automate that away.