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I'm crap at language. But if you told ChatGPT: "Have Ron write a screenplay" (or variations thereof), would it still output a screenplay or facsimile?

Does this philosophical question exist for hand calculators? They accept input and "personally" respond to it appropriately too.

To personify: What's the speaker-status of a person speaking echolalia?

To religify: What's the speaker-status of the oracle at delphi, or a person overcome by the holy spirit who starts speaking in tongues?




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