The widespread trust in AI chatbots as all-knowing oracles is a dangerous misunderstanding of what they actually are. Large Language Models are sophisticated pattern-matching tools, not truth machines, a critical distinction defining how we should use them.
From a "safe or dangerous?" PoV, AI's are better understood as delusionally-overconfident sycophants. They'll happily make crap up, or twist the truth beyond recognition, in their statements to you.
