"This new wave of AI assistants are large language models, designed to produce text that seems like it was written by a human. They do this by extrapolating from billions of examples written by humans. But humans don’t always give accurate answers. The advice to eat a small rock every day comes from humour site the Onion, and the culinary recommendation involving glue from Reddit, where sincere advice competes with sarcasm and shitposting."
Read more in Prospect Magazine.