I agree. Statements like this miss the point entirely: >Most concerningly, they hallucinate or confabulate: they make things up! That's exactly what they wer

I agree. Statements like this miss the point entirely: >Most concerningly, they hallucinate or confabulate: they make things up! That's exactly what they were designed to do! To generate creative responses to input. To make things up. And they're quite good at it - brainstorming, worldbuilding, inspiration for creative writing, finding ideas to pursue about new topics. Unlike an old-fashioned random generator, you can tailor a prompt and style and tone and hold a conversation with it to change details, dig deeper, etc. Get it to make up things that are more interesting and find relations. >They fail spectacularly when prompted with logic puzzles, or basic arithmetic Well, anyone can use a tool wrong, and if you misuse it wrong enough, you'll have problems. Using a chainsaw to trim your fingernails is likely to fail spectacularly, and a nail trimmer is going to fail spectacularly when trying to use it to chop down a tree. That's not a bug in the tool. We don't need to get all alarmed and tell people it's lying. We just need to tell them it's not a calculator or an encyclopedia, it's a creative text generator.