I have more elaborate observations to make about ChatGPT, but, in addition to all its potentially deleterious social effects, I'll say it is just not well-designed. There clearly weren't many talented linguists involved. No corpus control & the model weights statistical frequency over all else.
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Which is of course trivially false - even with an infinite supply of data you could converge on different things.
“I appreciate your patience and sharp observation in pointing this out. It's helpful for me to understand how these misinterpretations can arise and to correct the record. Thank you for pushing me to give a more focused and direct answer!”
A linguist with experience in NLP wouldn't post what you posted because it's self-evident to everyone. And the actual criticism is just a rephrasing of the central criticism of so-called "AI'.