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by dQw4w9WgXcQ 1231 days ago
You do understand it's not ChatGPT giving advice though right?

ChatGPT's "life advice autocomplete engine" is basically digging somewhere into psychology manuals written by educated humans when it spits out responses.

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It's no weirder to say "ChatGPT gave me advice" than it is "Google search gave me the link to Wikipedia" or "the sun gave me a tan." Regardless of the exact status of ChatGPT, why be on an ideological warpath to reject that inanimate things can be the subject of a statement?
What's the functional difference between a psychology manual imprinted on an AI neural network versus a biological one?