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> They predict what they should say based on what they read.

There's so much anthropomorphization in the air in these debates, that I worry even this statement might get misinterpreted.

The text generator has no ego, no goals, and is not doing a self-insert character. The generator extends text documents based on what it has been initialized with from other text documents.

It just happens to be that we humans have purposely set up a situation where the document looks like one where someone's talking with a computer, and the text it inserts fits that kind of document.