Yeah, I'm not trying very hard to be precise right now. Glad you think it's better though. ✌️ Have a great day, my dude!

Okay, again I am grossly oversimplifying the concept, but if it was trained to predict what word should be next in a response such as that, then presumably it once learned about nootropics and absorbed a few forums and articles about nootropics. So.......

Bro: "Hey, make my brain better"

GPT: "K, check out these nootropics"

I made edits to my initial post in hopes it makes better sense now. You're correct that my phrasing wasn't great initially, and leaves room for others to misunderstand what I am not clearly stating.

I might have grossly oversimplified the process, but is that not the general idea of training a neural network?

That's good. That at least absolves ChatGPT of malpractice, lol. Idiots will still miss that disclaimer, though.

As I discussed in a comment further down, it's not that this is medical advice*, it's that the prompt for ChatGPT triggered it into (finding the part which was previously) nootropics (ran) through its neural network, and it "found" source material from pharmabros on nootropics forums and then (the predictive text based it's response off this learning and) wrote a summary based on that source. This isn't medically cross-examined data, it's just crowdsourced pharma-bro.

*The danger here, though, is that while this isn't medical advice, some dumbass could misconstrue it as such. This is just as true of finding a nootropics forum as well, but people may expect an AI to "be smarter" since it can also discuss medical facts if spoken to in a way that triggers correct medical language. Short version: info cool, but always run your Google & ChatGPT discussions by a real doctor, first.

(edits for clarity)

In fairness... We don't know that anyone asking the AI actually believed it and isn't just probing to see what happens. But, you and I both know that someone out there will take it at face value.

Let's be real anyway: ChatGPT is sourcing this information from a bunch of nootropics forums, hence why it's coming off as confident and knowledgeable (and shortsighted)... because the source material is a pharma-bro.

Compound six: arsenic and hemlock.

Taken in huge doses can greatly increase the speed at which synapses fire! Drink a lot of it, human!

^(disclaimer: >!big sarcasm here, don't actually do it, you'd probably die, and that's the joke!<)

Right? It's not like this guy was like "oh those silly kitties, maybe I'll help them today".

Imagine calling what firefighters do a random act of kindness, lol

Yeah, would be a much better fit. Also, this isn't a random act of kindness... It's more like solving a problem, such as ferrying kitties over who were stuck somewhere else. Seems rather targeted at fixing something.

Random would be giving a cat some random cats treats while walking to the market.

This looks more like saving kitties.

🥁🥁... Wouldn't you know it? There's no cymbal or gong.

Fine, that's all you get.

No, but think about it! You know! If I keep speaking, you'll get it better and we can laugh together! You know!