A Google Gemini model now has a "dial" to adjust how much it reasons (technologyreview.com)

Gemini does not reason.

LLMs do not reason to produce their answers, any more than they bake muffins to produce their answers.

Use words to mean what they actually mean.

To not do so is to mislead, intentionally or inadvertently.

To mislead intentionally is to deceive.

I wish my wife had such a dial