i tried chatgpt and it's even worse than i thought

Since ChatGPT launched, I have had a hypothesis. Since it is a probability-calculating machine trained on the text contents of the Internet, it should return the "average result" for Web-content-based questions. For example, if I want the average of all blog posts on some common keyword, I should be able to get an LLM to generate it. Yesterday I tried this. I directed ChatGPT to give me common keywords for a hypothetical blog, then to produce a standard blog post based on one of the keywords. ChatGPT gave me a list that looked like common keywords. It did not give me a "full blog post." Rather, it gave me what I'd call an outline for a blog post. But I didn't specify word count or format, so I'll accept that "blog post" was somewhat subjective there. As I poked at it, several things occurred to me. it's not really a probability-based *text* generator, per se Markov chains are probability-based text generators. That's the tech behind things like Botnik's Voicebox, which I used to…