No, the fundamental difference is that you can reason about your mistake, can correct yourself and try to avoid falling into the same trap again. You are capable of independent thought. ChatGPT string words together.

Perhaps not ChatGPT, though it does show admirable skill, but it seems quite likely that its successors may well be able to do that through sheer size.

Certainly, in many conversations with ChatGPT, it is indistinguishable from a human changing their mind.

Since the process of "reasoning" is not particularly well understood, it seems a bit premature to declare it different from LLMs.

Those tweets are a lot less specific though. In general the government did fix it and the water is safe. But specifically there are still 5% of pipes that have lead in them (but apparently thesr are ones that are generally not for domestic supply or something).

So the exact claim matters a lot.

My comment was certainly wrong right off, though. I, a human, bullshitted just like ChatGPT.

> "...Apple is spying on them etc. Fabrication is well and alive among us."

It's more likely your claim of mass-fabrication is the fabrication.

Without knowing details of what you're talking about, I'd put money on any Big Tech outfit as the guilty party when it comes to privacy mistakes, double-dipping, dark patterns, hostile nag-patterns, overreach and stealing from the cookie jar. How I wish that was paranoia and not reasoned expectation based on years of observing the behaviour of tech giants.

Perhaps it is, and I'm not ChatGPT.