OisforOwesome

I see a lot of people treating ChatGPT like a knowledge creation engine, for example, asking ChatGPT to give reasons to vote for a political party or to provide proof for some empirical or epistemic claim such as "reasons why 9/11 was an inside job."

My understanding of ChatGPT is that it's basically a fancy autocomplete-- it doesn't do research or generate new information, it simply mimics the things real people have already written on these topics and regurgitates them back to the user.

Is this a fair characterization of ChatGPT's capabilities?

Any idea why so many people in this post are so fricking triggered by the mere thought of hypothetical property damage, while they seem utterly indifferent to the suffering of the unhoused?

Does ChatGPT have interiority? That is, does it have an internal model of the world? I've seen AI aficionados claim to have 'fallen in love' with a ChatGPT character - isn't that just a human anthropomorphizing and projecting emotion onto something that can't do the things the human is pretending it can do?