“ChatGPT cannot be trusted to provide factual information. It has a very real risk of making things up, and if people don’t understand it they are guaranteed to be mislead.”
Willison’s critics would rather argue over “hallucinate” versus “confabulate” than warn anyone. Meanwhile the models fail at arithmetic, invent citations and imagine the contents of URLs they never read. Decades of science fiction taught the public that computers do not lie. “It lies” is the only warning a normal user will hear.