> ChatGPT will lie to you > > Or > > ChatGPT doesn’t lie, lying is too human and implies intent. It hallucinates. Actually no, hallucination still implies h

> ChatGPT will lie to you > > Or > > ChatGPT doesn’t lie, lying is too human and implies intent. It hallucinates. Actually no, hallucination still implies human-like thought. It confabulates. That’s a term used in psychiatry to describe when someone replaces a gap in one’s memory by a falsification that one believes to be true—though of course these things don’t have human minds so even confabulation is unnecessarily anthropomorphic. I hope you’ve enjoyed this linguistic detour! Classic strawman. Third option: ChatGPT gets things wrong. There you go, problem solved.