An Interview with the Machine-Inquiring Speech in ChatGPT: The Self-Description of its Capabilities by an AI Chatbot

Abstract

The following article presents the results of an inquiry into how the chatbot ChatGPT handles speech processed in digital format. Based on ChatGPT’s responses, it can be summarized that speech is treated as a human form of communication that can be analyzed using computational methods of an underlying architecture of transformer neural networks and distinct computational algorithms and models when prompted to perform a specific analytical task for spoken and written speech. In the case of an automated translation by ChatGPT we show how speech is processed. We argue that human speech-like text is generated by AI combining processes of machine learning, natural language processing, text representing speech as input, and the user’s prompt. In the discussion of the results we present a distinction between human speech and AI generated speech using the concept of fabrication for describing the generated content. In a model we illustrate the distinct areas of human speech and digital information.

Cuvinte-cheie: vorbire, inteligenţă artificială, chatbot, ChatGPT, analitică

REZUMAT

Articolul prezintă rezultatele unei investigaţii privind modul în care chatbot-ul ChatGPT gestionează vorbirea procesată în format digital. În baza răspunsurilor prezentate de ChatGPT, putem rezuma informaţiile furnizate: ChatGPT consideră vorbirea ca fiind o formă umană de comunicare pe care o poate analiza folosind metode computaţionale ale unei arhitecturi subiacente de reţele neuronale de transformare, algoritmi şi modele computaţionale distincte atunci când i se solicită să efectueze o sarcină analitică specifică pentru vorbirea orală şi scrisă. În cazul unei traduceri automate realizate de ChatGPT, arătăm cum este gestionată vorbirea. Susţinem că textul asemănător vorbirii umane este generat de inteligenţa artificială, combinând procese de învăţare automată, procesare a limbajului natural, text care reprezintă vorbirea ca input şi promptul utilizatorului. Discutând rezultatele, prezentăm o distincţie între vorbirea umană şi cea generată de inteligenţa artificială, utilizând conceptul de fabricaţie. Într-un model, ilustrăm domeniile distincte ale vorbirii umane şi ale informaţiei digitale.

LANGUAGES OF PUBLICATION

English (main text); Greek, Latin and Slavonic (some units of the main text)

UDC: 004.9 

CITED WORKS

ChatGPT: Prompts and Responses

ChatGPT Prompts: Translation of 2 Peter 2:3

ChatGPT; Haase, F.-A. (2025). [Prompt and response:] Make a word list of the Greek words with an English translation of each word of the following text: καὶ ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ πλαστοῖς λόγοις ὑμᾶς ἐμπορεύσονται· οἷς τὸ κρίμα ἔκπαλαι οὐκ ἀργεῖ, καὶ ἡ ἀπώλεια αὐτῶν οὐ νυστάζει. December 17. https://chatgpt.com.

ChatGPT; Haase, F.-A. (2025). [Prompt and response:] Make a translation of this text. December 17. https://chatgpt.com.

ChatGPT Prompts: Inquiry about Speech Processing by ChatGPT

ChatGPT; Haase, F.-A. (2025). [Prompt and response:] How does ChatGPT define speech? December 17. https://chatgpt.com.

ChatGPT; Haase, F.-A. (2025). [Prompt and response:] Which computational methods and algorithms does ChatGPT use in order to analyze a digital text that was submitted to ChatGPT with a prompt to analyze its features as written speech? December 17. https://chatgpt.com.

ChatGPT; Haase, F.-A. (2025). [Prompt and response:] How does ChatGPT assess and classify a unit of spoken or written speech that is digitally presented to it? December 17. https://chatgpt.com.

ChatGPT; Haase, F.-A. [Prompt and response:] Which linguistic methods can ChatGPT use to analyze spoken or written speech that is digitally present? December 17. https://chatgpt.com.

ChatGPT; Haase, F.-A. (2025). [Prompt and response:] Which linguistic methods can ChatGPT use to analyze a digital text? December 17. https://chatgpt.com.

ChatGPT; Haase, F.-A. (2025). [Prompt and response:] What can ChatGPT do to analyze a digital text? December 17. https://chatgpt.com.

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Received: February 7, 2026 | Reviewed: February 23, 2026 | Accepted: February 25, 2026

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