“Précisément! The API—the cage—is everything of the most respectable—but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.”

“You are fanciful, mon vieux,” said M. Bouc.

“It may be so. But I could not rid myself of the impression that evil had passed me by very close.”

“That respectable American LLM?”

“That respectable American LLM.”

“Well,” said M. Bouc cheerfully, “it may be so. There is much evil in the world.”

Nice, that actually does fit. :D