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That sentence sounds suspiciously like the sort of statement ChatGPT produces when directly asked to generate phishing emails, fake news, etc.

Anyway. Friendly reminder that ChatGPT is a statistical model, and is not capable of reason, thought, conceptualizing, etc.

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No reason why it shouldn't be just because it's a statistical model. Reason, thought, conceptualizing etc are fundamentally based on statistical analysis. More importantly, verbally expressed reason, thought and conceptualizing are present in the source corpus.

How are you so sure that thought itself is not a statistical model? I mean that's the whole philosophical question raised by how good ChatGPT actually is.

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