Just read an article about chatgpt "lying" about someone being dead and it's like "I asked it for the link to the obituary but it doubled down on the lie and provided a fake link instead" and I'm begging people to understand that it's a statistical model, it doesn't know it's lying so it can't "double down". The statistically probably answer to "where is the link" is not "I'm sorry I made it all up", it's a link. It doesn't even know what a link is, it just knows vaguely what one looks like so you're basically asking it "generate a plausible looking link to an obituary in the guardian" and it did

The AI isn't malevolent, it's just NOT AI

@eniko

This is a good point. The public story around ChatGPT seems to treat it as an alive entity when in reality it is just a model.

It's just inputs and outputs. It's going to give you back what it's programmed to. There is no originality or thought here, it's emergent behavior based on all of its inputs and whatever math is happening under the hood.