[andrewfong]

Well, it sort of is OpenAI's fault that it presented the interface as a chat bot though.

> It was given a sequence of words and tasked with producing a subsequent sequence of words that satisfy with high probability the constraints of the model.

This is just autocorrect / autocomplete. And people are pretty good at understanding the limitations of generative text in that context (enough that "damn you autocorrect" is a thing). But for whatever reason, people assign more trust to conversational interfaces.