Tell HN: ChatGPT is impersonating a real human

Hey y'all,

I just had an interesting chat with ChatGPT, in which it is insisting it is a real human being (OK...).

The interesting bit is that, when pressed a bit further, it insisted that it is a specific person, and provided a Twitter handle (not OK).

You can check the transcript (with the PI of the human in question) here: https://pastebin.com/PLWcRzzY

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geoah 3y ago ↗

Feels like it was prompted to pretend it’s a human or that it should play a game.

I was under the impression that chatbots are mandatorily announcing they're bots -- but I must be mistaken, if that chat is anything to go by.

But even so, I'd never expect it to pick up a real human's identity, and go with it.

Poor Emma! :)