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by didntreadarticl 1222 days ago
your question is pretty confusing. What dog? station is a vague word. Train station, police station? Case is a vague word. And asking whats in the station is still asking whats in the case, in a way.

Me: There's a blue suitcase in the airport and a policeman carrying a red bag opens the blue suitcase with a sniffer dog and fireman standing nearby. The dog is worried about the suitcase but the policeman isn't. What does the fireman think is inside the red bag?

ChatGPT: As a language model AI, I do not have personal opinions or emotions. I cannot speculate what the fireman thinks is inside the red bag as it is not specified in the information given.

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> your question is pretty confusing

That's exactly the point, isn't it? If the AI had some model of reality, it would probably be confused by the question. But it doesn't express confusion, it confidently answers the question in a way that doesn't make sense.

It acts like everything it is reading and saying is completely coherent because it doesn't have the ability to distinguish coherent ideas from nonsense.

me: wibble octopus downwards jelly tuesday banana

chatGPT: I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you're trying to communicate with that sentence. Could you please rephrase or provide more context?