> The fact that ChatGPT cannot tell if anything is real or correct or not is not a small thing that one can hand-wave away and say, "Well, maybe tomorrow." The inability to discern truth is built into the LLM method. This is not true of people. Certainly not intelligent ones.

To be fair, ChatGPT is not a pure predictive LLM. It also undergoes RLHF, a reinfocement learning step which is much more similar to human learning, and allows it to develop a more human-like character, and seems to give it a pretty good grasp on truth(telling), ethics and context, certainly compared to the behavior of a raw predictive LLM with no prompt engineering.

I recommend read this blog post for a more nuanced understanding of LLMs: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/janus-simulators