Eh, it's a bit better than a parrot. It gives you, what is essentially, the most statistically likely prediction (give or take) of what all the data it's fed suggests the answer should be. It's more like a really, really good probability machine capable of working with an insane amount of data. The most interesting thing about the chatgpt, I've found, is the size of its "short term memory" and the ability to prime it for the responses you're looking for. Last night I asked it if it was familiar with visual novels, and after it spit out some basic summary, I had it write a 3 act visual novel outline for the story of John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry. Then I asked if it was familiar with JSON structures and how they 're used by visual novel engines, and got it spit out the story outline, with a bit of extra interactions, as a JSON; Just not one that works with the engine I'm trying to use. I'm curious to see if I can teach it the json structure of a specific visual novel engine.

You can call it a parrot all you want, but you're missing out on the opportunity that this could be a big ol' Leftist agitprop slop machine.