Why are you so ready to believe they’re stochastic parrots when they’ve done so many novel behaviors?
Even primitive versions of this technology (and gpt is already primitive), remember move 37 of alphago? It was unprecedented, we’re far too willing to believe that nothing is happening in the world and there’s nothing to worry about, but there’s plenty of warning signs, laughing these things off as stochastic parrots is genuinely harmful to society. It’s also just blatant misinformation.