Frankfurt’s book “On Bullshit” explains that lies and bullshit are very distinct: - Both people who are lying and people who are telling the truth are focused

Frankfurt’s book “On Bullshit” explains that lies and bullshit are very distinct: - Both people who are lying and people who are telling the truth are focused on the truth. The liar wants to steer people away from discovering the truth and the person telling the truth wants to present the truth. - A person who communicates bullshit is not interested in whether what they say is true or false, only in its suitability for their purpose. By this definition, the article seems well reasoned > We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs