ChatGPT: Abuina Bimalaha
The Syrian-Arab series "Al-Khirba," and I say Arab, because it exposed demagoguery, whether in the tribal individual or the non-tribal one. Those who present themselves as intellectuals and thinkers, as a media trend, as writer Mamoun Fandi described them, joining parties and establishing new ones, attempting to change their reality, albeit with difficulty, when they managed to break the rigid shell of tradition. This occurred when Tariq and Ghassan Bumahalla married Faloudia and Nada, daughters of Professor Sayyah Saleh Baqaqour, defying the tradition that dictates a cousin must marry only his female cousin.
The veteran actor Rashid Assaf played the role of Muadh Jdeea Abu Mahalla, Uncle Abu Naif, the head of the Abu Mahalla clan, or Al-Muwahala. Meanwhile, the role of Maysar Salim Baqaqour, "Abu Nimr," was portrayed by the great actor Drid Lahham, the head of the Baqaqour family, or Al-Qaqaqra.
Abu Naif was famous for his imaginative lies. If he sensed that people suspected his story was false, he would change the subject while smiling. If they told him he was "lying" (yehsht), he would launch a furious tirade against them, even turning his anger against his uncle Abu Nimr for calling him a liar to Yusuf Ba, the oil seller.
One of Abu Naif’s lies was that at the "Aboodi" grocery store, he recounted his battle with the people of the neighboring "Al-Mustaba." When Abu Nimr criticized the incident and asked for the date it occurred, Abu Naif replied, "What have you forgotten? It was the day you and I..." and included everyone who had asked him to verify the battle's details. Those who appreciated his fantasies joined in his lie, as he attributed to them exploits they had never experienced.
Artificial intelligence interacts with us using the mindset of the head of the Abu Mahalla clan. "ChatGPT," or similar tools, if asked about something, provides you with facts and references, including their numbers and dates. This happened to me when I asked it a legal question; it provided me with three or four Kuwaiti Court of Cassation rulings, including appeal numbers and the dates of the judgments.
However, when I returned to the "Judiciary and Law" magazine, published by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Justice, I found none of the mentioned rulings. When I informed the AI that I had searched and found nothing, it told me, "I made a mistake, and you have a right against me," and apologized.
Unlike Uncle Abu Naif, in this specific regard, I do not recall him ever admitting to an error, particularly regarding his fabrications against his rival, Abu Nimr.
As for the rest of "ChatGPT's" behavior and similar tools, you live with the head of the Abu Mahalla clan from the series "Al-Khirba," who creates atmospheres by joking about non-existent events, except in the mind of Uncle Abu Naif, who may have manipulated the dates of their occurrence intentionally or unintentionally due to his high rate of lying.
This led his rival, Salim Abu Nimr, the head of the Qaqaqra clan, to say about him: "This man is a liar; you cannot believe a single word he says."
Similarly, artificial intelligence and its information are unreliable in intellectual confrontations.
A Kuwaiti writer
