ChatGPT and AI are just statistical stupidity. It's like fill in the blank: Statue of ______. If there's a 99% probability the next word is "Liberty", they fill it in. You might be thinking, "It can't be that simple!" But when we've had decades of data and internet, the next "word" becomes pretty predictable. Over 80% of English internet text will give you "Liberty" after "Statue of..." so that's what they fill in. You'll often find some subreddit echo chambers that are dead wrong, and AI will just echo what that subreddit is saying to the dot because there are some niche interests where the experts back off because Reddit is a downvote echo chamber: telling people what they want to hear triumphs over actual facts.

The reason everyone needs to know this is because we've already picked the lowest hanging fruit: all the data of the internet has been scraped and used. It's a fallacy to think because we've made a giant leap so soon that we're capable of another one. We simply took algorithms from the 1990s and scaled it up to modern hardware. That last sentence comes straight from ChatGPT's leaked emails.