Drew KadelMy daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:
Nate Gaylinn@DrewKadel Love this. We want so badly for ChatGPT to produce answers, opinions, and art, but all it can do is make plausible simulations of those things. As a species, we've never had to deal with that before.
Scott Galloway@ngaylinn @DrewKadel Have you met religion? Literally inventing stories to explain reality.
William Pietri@scottgal For sure! Back in the olden days if you had questions about the lights in the sky, you had to find somebody with low moral fiber to make up a plausible answer. Now we've built a machine that will instantly give you comforting nonsense. If that isn't progress, I don't know what is.