If you had given me their explanation of events before I had any knowledge of the output from ChatGPT, then I would infer that the output would be random gibberish, or perhaps something more akin to creating an accidental shift cipher of sorts. Instead, while ChatGPT's outputs still made no sense, they still followed a certain "order".
In one amusing Twitter example, some guy asked it a math problem and ChatGPT replied with "It's the mix, it's the match, it's the meter, it's the method." and repeated sentences of this structure for who knows how long.
I guess what I'm getting at is that it's kind of an underwhelming, unsatisfying explanation of events given how truly bizarre some of the outputs are. Like, you'd assume it would be something more other than "Oops, picked the wrong numbers, gonna repeat this sentence 100x but with slightly different word choices each time".
In one amusing Twitter example, some guy asked it a math problem and ChatGPT replied with "It's the mix, it's the match, it's the meter, it's the method." and repeated sentences of this structure for who knows how long.
I guess what I'm getting at is that it's kind of an underwhelming, unsatisfying explanation of events given how truly bizarre some of the outputs are. Like, you'd assume it would be something more other than "Oops, picked the wrong numbers, gonna repeat this sentence 100x but with slightly different word choices each time".