ChatGPT Has Impostor Syndrome
AI doesn’t know its own strengths.
Young people catch heat for being overly focused on personal identity, but they’ve got nothing on ChatGPT. Toy with the bot long enough, and you’ll notice that it has an awkward, self-regarding tic: “As an AI language model,” it often says, before getting to the heart of the matter. This tendency is especially pronounced when you query ChatGPT about its own strengths and weaknesses. Ask the bot about its capabilities, and it will almost always reply with something like:
“As an AI language model, my primary function is …”
“As an AI language model, my ability to …”
“As an AI language model, I cannot …”
The workings of AI language models are by nature mysterious, but one can guess why ChatGPT responds this way., it says, .
