Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT and it's effect on humanity

Asked via mail. Here's the response:

I can't foretell the future, but it is important to realize that ChatGPT is not artificial intelligence. It has no intelligence; it doesn't know anything and doesn't understand anything. It plays games with words to make plausible-sounding English text, but any statements made in it are liable to be false. It can't avoid that because it doesn't know what the words _mean_.

Was the gist generated by ChatGPT? Regardless, large language models are AI, same as Eliza the Emacs Psychoterapist was in days of yore. It's numbers in and numbers out, only much more advanced.