LLMs are modeling outputs, not replicating a process, as a result the output looks the same but it isn't made of the same stuff.

It is a plastic banana.

There is nothing inherently wrong with a plastic banana but as soon as you claim you can use it to solve world hunger people are going to be upset and it doesn't matter how much it looks right.

@Vrimj lots of people in the technical-professional class do in fact just copy and paste a something from Google and don't know what it's actually doing for some subset of their job. They effectively are doing what chat gpt does.

@zippy1981

I might have agreed before I read the NY Case ChatGPT generated cases, but now having read that and to be frank legal documents produced by copying and pasting by people with no domain knowledge I can say, not it isn't the same thing at all, at least in this case.

Because the person understands what they are trying to do. Prompts don't replicate that.

@zippy1981

Understanding, thinking and having a narrative of events matter and have a lot to do with what even someone blind to the issues chooses and frankly I didn't fully understand that until I saw.what happened when they didn't.

@Vrimj I guess I need to read the story about the lawyer who used chat gpt, because the little I know about it drew me to the conclusion it caused you to abandon