I think 'lying' is perfectly appropriate if there's a structured orientation towards the mistruth. 'Broken' or 'wrong' would be fine if that were simply just m

I think 'lying' is perfectly appropriate if there's a structured orientation towards the mistruth. 'Broken' or 'wrong' would be fine if that were simply just making an error. But if there's something in the system, even the corpus, that permeates a falsehood then I think 'lying' is the right term. ChatGPT has a morality, and it's a bit specific to the Anglosphere. It talks like the perfect LinkedIn corporate bot. This means that it will effectively misrepresent ideas on a lot of sensitive subjects from the purview of many people in the world. That's a form of 'structured misrepresentation' or maybe just bias, but it can feel like lying. 'Hallucinating' is a cool sounding but inappropriate anthropomorphization.