Of all the commentary about OpenAI’s model ChatGPT some of the more level-headed observations for the publishing industry may come from Thomas Cox, a specialist in computer science and the managing director of Arq Works near Oxford. Cox talks about how the software can “hallucinate,” as technologists call it, generating a stream of authoritative sounding verbiage that’s in fact utterly wrong. “Which is to say, it will lie to you,” Cox says. “Like it’s the truth. Because it has no idea that it’s not the truth.”
Source: What ‘AI’ Isn’t: An Interview With Thomas Cox on ChatGPT