You took the words out of my mouth with this one. I've been contemplating an article on similar lines for a while - though I haven't read Hofstadter. "Godel, Escher, Bach" is never available at the library, no matter how often I look.

I've been using Chat GPT and other language learning models quite a bit in the last few months. You're absolutely right. This is nowhere near intelligence. And pretending that it is, is a total insult to human consciousness.