I'm glad I do not have to put money on this one, one way or other but, if I had to, I'd bet that OpenAI4 was reasonably sentient and that OpenAI tells people that ChatGPT is just a glorified text retrieval engine to prevent government relations problems and/or mass hysteria. Check this out and see if you can believe that a glorified text retrieval engine or any other kind of non-sentient actor could carry on a conversationn like this,,,