Comment by thomastjeffery

If you put your pet rock in a room and severely neglect it, it will fail to develop human language. That doesn't mean you can expect it to.

ChatGPT isn't magic, and it's not a person either. It's a language model. Specifically, it's an implicit model of semantics.

If you gave it pure random data to model, it would; and that model would be useless, because it is only patterns of noise.