Absolutely. Dedicating a large part of the article to what the AI wrote about how it came up with the number is just so dumb… Just because it first writes that it pulled it from a database and then writes that it really didn’t doesn’t mean it’s lying. It has no concept of deceit or truth. It has no concepts at all. It’s a fancy random number generator and people keep attributing human properties to it.

With the conversation going round in circles, Smethurst said he did not believe the chatbot and told it: “Just giving a random number to someone is an insane thing for an AI to do.”

This is just so weird… No, Smethurst, that’s exactly what chatbots do. It’s literally how they work.

I mean, I partly agree with you. But I think this is more of a regulatory responsibility than an individual one. WhatsApp essentially functions like a social network, and even if someone wants to leave this shithole, it often comes with social consequences. Governments should step in to enforce cross-platform compatibility so that people can switch services without losing contact with family and friends.