ChatGPT is not lying to people, it can't lie, at least not in the sense of "to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive". ChatGPT doesn't really have a

ChatGPT is not lying to people, it can't lie, at least not in the sense of "to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive". ChatGPT doesn't really have a conception of true. It puts forward true and false things merely because it's cobbling together stuff in it's training set according to some weighing system. ChatGPT doesn't have an intent but merely by following the pattern of how humans put forward their claims, ChatGPT puts forward it's claims in a fashion that tends to get them accepted. So without a human-like intent, ChatGPT is going to be not just saying falsehoods but "selling" these falsehoods. And here, I'd be in agreement with the article that the distinction between this and "lying" is kind of quibbling.