Because it literally is a mirror of the status quo. Training an LLM is having it memorize everything anyone has ever said on the internet (or a reasonable attem

Because it literally is a mirror of the status quo. Training an LLM is having it memorize everything anyone has ever said on the internet (or a reasonable attempt at approximating that). It operates by returning an averaged out version of the most common response to what you asked — so the average of everything that’s ever been said on the internet in response to a question like yours. Which is pretty darn close to a definition of status quo.