It's not that simple. ChatGPT has taken us into this uncanny valley of sentience, and even smart tech journalist (cough) activists (cough) twitterists can be su

It's not that simple. ChatGPT has taken us into this uncanny valley of sentience, and even smart tech journalist (cough) activists (cough) twitterists can be sucked into the media circus of spotting the HALs and Roy Battys hidden behind our beloved chatbots. Duh. Now, OP's got a point: advanced LLM-based tools are moving extremely fast into our daily toolchain, in creative and unexpected ways, with minimal moderation and no supervision. It's not about its failures being a reliable knowledge base, but at how keen some of us are willing to hand the keys to their bash prompt to an statistical "perplexed" system with rand() bolted on in more than a couple places.