# ChatGPT Breaking up marriages **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-breaking-up-marriages/1023241 "2025-09-20T22:06:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 26
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2025, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-breaking-up-marriages/1023241/26 "2025-10-07T06:17:33Z")
> [@AI search results can be crazy stupid (cars named after plants)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-search-results-can-be-crazy-stupid-cars-named-after-plants/1023619/20): > > It is repeating the use of language found int he structure of sources of training data, and provided those are credible sources it is providing cromulent-sounding guidance. But it has no actual knowledge of medical diagnostics or pathology of disease as applied in a clinical setting; it just has the text and image date from which to synthesize a statistically appropriate response. I know we’re getting sorta repetitive here, but I just want to highlight what I regard as a profoundly important point. By persistently focusing on what you regard as the core operational feature of LLMs (as mere “completion engines” lacking any actual knowledge) you’re completely ignoring the emergent properties that manifest at the unimaginably large scale of many billions of parameters shaping the behaviour of their artificial neural nets. What, after all, exactly is “knowledge” other than the ability to correctly answer questions or, in medicine, develop accurate diagnoses based on a description of symptoms and medical test results? And how is an AI’s knowledge objectively inferior to that of a physician if it reaches the same conclusions based on the same evidence? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chatgpt-breaking-up-marriages/1023241)._