This article poses a simple question: can AI lie? In response to this question, the article examines, as its point of inquiry, popular AI chatbots, such as, ChatGPT. In doing so, an examination of the psychoanalytic, philosophical, and technological significance of AI and its complexities are located in relation to the dynamics of truth, falsity, and deception. That is, by critically considering the chatbot’s ability to engage in natural language conversations and provide contextually relevant responses, it is argued that what separates the AI chatbot from anthropocentric debates, which allude to some form of conscious recognition on behalf of AI, is the importance of the lie – an importance which a psychoanalytic approach can reveal. Indeed, while AI technologies can undoubtedly blur the line between lies and truth-speaking, in the case of the AI chatbot, it is detailed how such technology remains unable to lie authentically or, in other words, is unable to lie like a human. For psychoanalysis, the capacity to lie bears witness to the unconscious and, thus, plays an important role in determining the subject. It is for this reason that rather than uncritically accepting the chatbot’s authority – an authority that is easily reflected in its honest responses and frank admissions – a psychoanalytic (Lacanian) perspective can highlight the significance of the unconscious as a distorting factor in determining the subject. To help elucidate this argument, specific attention is given to introducing and applying Lacan’s subject of enunciation and subject of the enunciated. This is used to assert that what continues (for now) to set us apart from AI technology is not necessarily our ‘better knowledge’ but our capability to consciously engage in acts of falsehood that function to reveal the social nuances and significances of the lie.

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AI 会说谎吗？Chabot Technologies、主题和撒谎的重要性


本文提出了一个简单的问题：AI 会说谎吗？作为对这个问题的回答，本文以 ChatGPT 等流行的 AI 聊天机器人为研究点进行了研究。在此过程中，对人工智能的精神分析、哲学和技术意义及其复杂性的考察与真、假和欺骗的动态有关。也就是说，通过批判性地考虑聊天机器人参与自然语言对话和提供上下文相关响应的能力，有人认为人工智能聊天机器人与人类中心主义辩论的区别在于谎言的重要性——一种精神分析方法可以揭示的重要性。事实上，虽然人工智能技术无疑可以模糊谎言和说真话之间的界限，但就人工智能聊天机器人而言，它详细说明了这种技术如何仍然无法真实地撒谎，或者换句话说，无法像人类一样撒谎。对于精神分析来说，撒谎的能力见证了无意识，因此在确定主体方面起着重要作用。正是出于这个原因，精神分析（拉康式）的观点可以强调无意识作为决定主题的扭曲因素的重要性，而不是不加批判地接受聊天机器人的权威——这种权威很容易反映在其诚实的回答和坦率的承认中。为了帮助阐明这一论点，特别注意引入和应用拉康的 enungiation 主语和 inunciated 的主语。 这被用来断言，继续（目前）将我们与人工智能技术区分开来的不一定是我们的“更好的知识”，而是我们有意识地参与虚假行为的能力，这些行为的作用是揭示谎言的社会细微差别和意义。