It seems that you cannot move for mention of the ChatGPT AI-based text spitter-outer this week, and the online narrative has taken a weird course. Initially recognized as a neat way to generate background text for copywriting jobs, many evangelists have now proclaimed that ChatGPT is a synthesizer of all crawlable human knowledge. The initial results are surprising, as the tool from owner OpenAI does seem to have practical uses. Coders are able to paste snippets into the tool, which will then iterate on them and provide a fleshed-out expansion or error corrections. Cursory conversations can be had with the tool, and simple requests such as ‘write me a marketing email for a cordless drill’ will be met with success.…