Thanks, this is a great analysis. Here’s a comic from about two decades ago that I fear will remain relevant for at least another two:

I’m still figuring out how to communicate this, but the meme version is: chatbots aren’t real. An LLM is *not* a chatbot. It’s an uncannily good predictive text algorithm, which can *simulate* a conversation if trained on enough example conversations.

The mainstream media in one picture.

I dug up a better quality version.

In honor of Ted Cruz seemingly growing something resembling a spine, here’s a meme I made nine years (!) ago.