I haven't used or paid much attention to ChatGPT, but the other day I was reading a macOS question on Reddit, and one of the "answers" was completely bizarre, c

I haven't used or paid much attention to ChatGPT, but the other day I was reading a macOS question on Reddit, and one of the "answers" was completely bizarre, claiming that the Apple Launchpad app was developed by Canonical. I checked the commenter's bio, and sure enough, they were a prolific ChatGPT user. It also turns out that Canonical has a product called Launchpad, which was the basis of ChatGPT's mindlessly wrong answer. The scary thing is that even though ChatGPT's response was completely detached from reality, it was articulate and sounded authoritative, easily capable of fooling someone who wasn't aware of the facts. It seems to me that these "AI tools" are a menace in a society already rife with misinformation. Of course the Reddit commenter didn't have the decency to preface their comment with a disclaimer about how it was generated. I'm not looking forward to the future of this.