It could just as well state that humans have 3 legs depending on its training set and/or time of day. In fact it has said similar BS.
I think that’s a bit pedantic and not very helpful… I’m not typing this comment, my brain is just sending signals to my hands which causes them into input data into a device that displays pixels that look like a comment
Well, if you're just fed a corpus, with no real-time first-person strem of experience that you control, no feedback mechanism, no higher level facilities, and you're not a member of a species with a proven track record of state-of-the-art in nature semantic understanding, then maybe...
And even that, they do badly.
I mean, you could say that about a person too, as you don't know how much that they are saying is bullshit.
For one, you are technically correct about ChatGPT not recommending. It cannot perform such action. On the other hand, from the POV of the questioner, it's hard not to feel being recommended something when you ask "What do you recommend" and it says "I recommend that...". You are, for some intents and purposes, being recommended something at that point.
They're offering the tool, it's at least partially their responsibility to tell people how it should and should not be used.
Now, humans could very well also be statistical inference machines. But they have way more tricks up their semantic-level understanding sleeves than ChatGPT circa 2023.