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This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

[thinking GPT is writing a book for him] I'm writing a book! [turns out GPT is a statistical model that generates plausible-looking responses to text prompts, as designed] GPT screwed up the book it was writing!

Sounds like an electric Douglas Adams. Apparently he'd tell his agent he was almost finished when he hadn't done anything either.

Ehh, as an ADHD I can sympathise there. He wasn't getting anyone/thing else to do it and pretending it was his own work.