#ChatGPT acts like a #psychopath. It’s friendly at the beginning. It impresses you. It seems so reliable and full of truth. But then you find out: It loudly proclaims its own, made-up, wrong conclusions. Makes up references that don’t exist to justify them and continues to push its version. That level of gaslighting is typical of psychopath behaviour.
What an abusive chatbot teaches us about the art of conversation

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Tim Harford