> "We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner" But we do this with people - religious leaders, political leaders, 'thought' leaders, ventu

> "We are so amazed by its ability to babble in a confident manner" But we do this with people - religious leaders, political leaders, 'thought' leaders, venture capitalists, story tellers, celebrities, and more - we're enchanted by smooth talkers, we have words and names for them - silver tongued, they have the gift of the gab, slick talker, conman, etc. When a marketing manager sells a CEO on cloud services, and neither of them know what cloud services are, you can argue that it should matter but it doesn't actually seem to matter. When a bloke on a soapbox has a crowd wrapped around their finger, everyone goes home after and the most common result is that the feeling fades and nothing changes. When two people go for lunch and one asks 'what's a chicken fajita?' and the other says 'a Spanish potato omelette' and they both have a bacon sandwich and neither of them check a dictionary, it doesn't matter. Does it matter if Bing Chat reports Lululemon's earnings wrongly? Does it matter if Google results are full of SEO spam? It "should" matter but it doesn't seem to. Who is interested enough in finances to understand the difference between "the unadjusted gross margin" and "The gross margin adjusted for impairment charges" and the difference matters to them, and they are relying exclusively on Bing Chat to find that out, and they can't spot the mistake? I suspect that your fears won't play out because most of us go through our lives with piles of wrong understanding which doesn't matter in the slightest - at most it affects a trivia quiz result at the pub. People with life threatening allergies take more care than 'what their coworker thinks is probably safe'. We're going to have ChatGPT churn out plausible sounding marketing material which people don't read. If people do read it and call, the call center will say "sorry that's not right, yes we had a problem with our computer systems" and that happens all the time already. Some people will be inconvenienced, some businesses will suffer some lost income, society is resilient and will overall route around damage, it won't be the collapse of civilisation.