In the case of humans, language is just a way to express knowledge. In ChatGPT its the other way around - the focus is the correctness of the word chain. It ha

In the case of humans, language is just a way to express knowledge. In ChatGPT its the other way around - the focus is the correctness of the word chain. It happens to get some things right because other people have chained similar sentences together in expressing that knowledge. Even if it’s “lying” to you as long as the sentence is correct and the paragraph reads nicely, it’s done the job it was designed to do.