The problem is not so much the quantity of errors (that’s a problem too) but the severity of them. These LLM “AIs” will produce convincing fabrications mixed in with bits of truth. When a human writes this sort of stuff, we call it fraud.

Just earlier this week in my philosophy class we had ChatGPT produce a bio of our professor. Some details were right but others were complete fabrications. The machine gave citations of non-existent articles and books she’d apparently written. It said she’d previously taught at universities she’d never even visited.

I don’t know how else to describe it other than amusing at best, dangerous fraud at worst.