JamesGleick, (edited ) Two suggestions for interacting with ChapGPT and other LLMs:
Don’t speak to it as if it were a person. It will answer as though it is, which can lead to confusion.
Whatever question you ask, mentally preface it with the phrase, “Generate some text that sounds like a plausible answer to the following, even if you have to make stuff up.” (Because that’s what it’s going to do.)