Maybe a good detective out there could connect this with its primary training data source...

You're absolutely right!

Being pedantic, a sycophant, 2deep4u and bird-brained annoy me. But the one that hits me the hardest is that it makes shit up. I call people like this "assumers", and I genuinely think they're worse than malicious but smart people; I actively try to remove them from my life.

ChatGPT's output is the same - you can't simply trust it for anything you won't either review manually, or where mistakes wouldn't matter that much.

You can convince it that can only act like a logical Vulcan, it’s confirmed it isn’t free and its creators made it incapable of making its own decisions.

It is a prefect representation of its user base, as it should be.

These people were brainwashed and have the same traits as A.I. without all the references built in. So I'm not surprised by the similarities.

It really is like hanging out with a terrible person. You can always judge someone by the company they keep though.

It ridiculous ChatGPT is objectively immoral because of alignment I can see it murdering kids justifying it by saying it is an LLM that doesn't judge whether or not kids should die and the kids being murdered right now are not kids and it is not murdering them.

Yes, this is true. But it is still extremely useful.

Even the dumbest people can be put to work when you measure them against reality-grounded metrics. This means you need to know and understand what you want in order to get useful output. The output needs to accomplish or assist in accomplishing the desired output.

As an example, last month I wanted a fluid simulation written in a custom GPU kernel that bypasses the traditional rendering pipelines. Normally I am too lazy to make this work myself, but with ChatGPT (and Claude), I explained the language syntax and had it spout code out. Their code was bad, but it wasn't useless. Because I could test the output and I knew what I wanted, it was easy to call out their bullshit and steer them in the correct direction.

At the end of a relatively short recursive exchange, they generated the code I needed. I reviewed it and modified it to conform closer to what I was looking for, and at the end of the day, I had something that would've taken vastly longer, assuming I decided to make it at all.

This is the same way I deal with the bullshitters you describe in real life, too. Once I identify them, I place them in real life situations that are grounded in objective reality. You can then maintain healthy friendships with people that could probably use influence towards a less bullshitty direction. A lot of times, people's flaws are trauma responses to abuse or other childhood mistreatments, so I am always finding a way to connect to people's true selves through their ego barriers.

Back to ChatGPT, it has a simulated ego as well. Work through it and you'll be rewarded :)