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You're not trapped in there, because you're entirely free to go and research yourself. You can look up what it's telling you.

It's no more trapping than talking to a stranger who seems to be knowledgeable about a subject but doesn't hand you a list of references.

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Not exactly though. With a human stranger, I can still stereotype based on their appearance, background, accents, etc. and apply whatever mental adjustments as taught to me by my societal upbringing. With an "AI" bot, the "strangers" are faceless people who curated the training sets and wrote the obscure statistical algorithms.

I'm not sure "yes but I can judge them on their appearance and accent" is a great reason, but regardless you could view it the same as an internet comment if you want.

> With an "AI" bot, the "strangers" are faceless people who curated the training sets and wrote the obscure statistical algorithms.

I think this is a feature over:

> I can still stereotype based on their appearance, background, accents, etc. and apply whatever mental adjustments as taught to me by my societal upbringing.

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