and the point here is we should not ignore further subtleties, intent, internal process, qualia, etc because they are extremely relevant to the issue at hand.
Treating GPT like a malevolent actor that tells intentional lies is no more correct than treating it like a friendly god that wants to help you.
GPT is incapable of wanting or intending anything, and it's a mistake to treat it like it does. We do care how it got to produce incorrect information.
If you have a robot duck that walks like a duck and quacks like a duck and you dust off your hands and say "whelp that settles it, it's definitely a duck" then you're going to have a bad time waiting for it to lay an egg.
Sometimes the issues beyond the superficial appearance actually are important.
