Not right, but probably, that's how ChatGPT works.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence, i.e. a AI, that can generate texts.
ChatGPT means Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.
As the name suggests, ChatGPT was trained on it with a huge amount of text from the Internet and books, to write human-like texts and communicate human-like.
When you ask ChatGPT a question, the answer from ChatGPT is based on probabilities, among other things.
You must know this from your messenger services.
A friend messages with a message, "I'm sick".
Your messenger will probably suggest you a "Get well soon" as an answer, as this is the most likely option, as you would answer in this context.
ChatGPT works similarly, it looks at different possibilities and then meets a prediction, which answer is most likely the right one.
ChatGPT takes into account the information it received from the user's input, the so-called prompts, as well as its understanding of language and grammar, that it has learned.
The more information is available to the language model, the more accurate the result will be.
The special thing about ChatGPT is that it learns from the new data it receives.
Otherwise, the result can also be wrong, for example if there is too little information in the input.
Therefore, you should use the answers from ChatGPT without question, if it doesn't matter if the output is wrong.
This is, for example, the case when you use ChatGPT for brainstorming, as inspiration or to ask quiz questions on a topic.
You can also do text summaries or reformulations well with ChatGPT.
It looks completely different when ChatGPT is supposed to provide a new text, write code or edit workbooks.
Remember that ChatGPT was trained not to give the right answer, but to give the most likely answer.
This explanation was produced for a large part by ChatGPT and explains the functionality of ChatGPT in a very simplified way for laypersons.