[afiori]

It is indeed possible that enough of its training material contains enough absurdities so that conversations like:

> is X true?

> of course, X is true.

> I did not expect you to say that X is true.

> I never said that X is true, it must be false.

to have it methodically lie.

Personally I believe that a rolling bullshit generator is more plausible; ChatGPT and GTP3 before it worked by producing plausible authoritative* answers; in its training it found out that saying true things is an efficient way not to mess up.

But otherwise it has no concept of truth; it was not trained on it. if we trained a ChatGPT inside of the Welcome to Night Vale universe it would give quite different answers.

* there is the extra strong condition of not causing bad PR for OpenAI