Purported "AI" is Bullshit

Since the 1980s, philosophers in the field of epistemology have distinguished "lying" from "bullshitting". The liar is aware of the truth and is trying to convince you of its opposite. The bullshitter, however, ignores the truth, and may not know the truth, and is babbling his own fictional nonsense. Generative AI creates bullshit. But due to pareidolia, the strong human tendency to perceive…