I was trying to figure out what MacOS's "application not responding" actually means, and had a hard time googling it. So I asked ChatGPT, and it gave this response which I suspect is a) close to the truth, and b) also speculative bullshit:
When I attempted to corroborate this, the closest thing I could find is a system called "ANR detection" in Android, which last I checked, was not the same thing as MacOS.
Sometimes I feel compelled to ask ChatGPT for references, which is stupid. It will just confidently invent references, including matching authors to books they didn't write, and inventing quotations from whole cloth. E.g.: