"one can’t spread false information that undermines the authority of the government, and conflicts with the generally accepted (read: government approved) point of view"

...hahahaha! As if this GPT-thing could understand what it utters!

By the way, some weeks ago (in last December and January, to be more precise) I made experiments with Chat GPT. Some were impressing, some funny, and some aweful...

The funniest one: the thing could not tell the prime factors of 2023! It lectured me on how to do factorising, but it loosed completely with a correct answer for the result.
The most aweful one: the thing fantasised a completely wrong story on my question about the "Eroica"-Variations. As these variations are of course by Beethoven, the composer of the "Eroica"-Symphony, the AI-thing tried to make me believe this work would have been written by Ferruccio Busoni at the age of 18 in the year 1874. In the mentioned year, Busoni was 8, and he has nothing to do with the "Eroica"-Variations.

So, I'm inclined to follow your conclusion:

stay frosty, learn about it and 'know your enemy' by the face.