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by mountainb 1155 days ago
Well I think that its hallucinations are a good demonstration that none of the post-truth subjectivist philosophies were ever things that many people took very seriously. ChatGPT is the real thing as it relates to extreme relativism: it really cannot tell the difference between true and false and doesn't really care, either. By contrast, the apostles of post-truth were really only trolling for a response... no one really lives by its principles because it's so impractical and disastrous. To really believe in post-truth, you must perceive no difference between raisin bran with cyanide and raisin bran.