The most hilarious and horrible side-effect of LLMs is that we now have a definitive answer to the question implied by Searle's Chinese Room thought-experiment.

Anthropic and OpenAI have built the Chinese Room. And while it's clear now that there's no ghost in the machine, lots of people think they're having a real conversation ... https://mstdn.ca/@michaelgemar/115243456306059266

"JasperDasper started out just curious why everything had suddenly become about trans people and questioning some of the sources used in a book. He came out of it, 4 years later, with a 5 hour long video that connects all transphobia to less than 60 people. (I'm not joking. literally every single transphobic rhetoric and bill passed is because of these 50 or so people.)"

tumblr post quoted here:

https://www.tumblr.com/andy-globehead/794949184426000384

youtube video pointed to from tumblr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOc0r31-Os