imagine if someone promised human cloning then handed you an animatronic baby, and when you pointed out it was a robot covered in rubber, they told you the technology would improve, while someone from WIRED wrote an article about how they believed it was a baby

this is genAI

think of genAI as a "plausible response generator" and it makes sense

often a plausible response is the right answer, sometimes it's something that could be right but can't be checked, sometimes it's common misinformation, all divorced from the source and presented as a computer's original thought