Metaphorical intention. It's a figure of speech.

Of course you could also argue that human intention comes from largely deterministic processes emerging from the brain. That may eventually perhaps lead to all figures of speech involving things like intentionality meaningless.

Given how predictable this response was, how sure are you that you're any better?

This type of response is just stochastic parrotry, rather than displaying evidence of actual <whatever cognitive trait we're overconfidently insisting LLMs don't have>.

Yet more evidence that LLMs are more similar to humans than we give them credit for.