Can ChatGPT Recommend Movies?

I told ChatGPT I enjoyed the 2013 film "Her," whose protagonist develops a relationship with a virtual assistant. It spewed out a list of sci-fi titles like "Blade Runner 2049" and "Ex Machina." "These movies," it typed, "explore the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence, touching on themes such as consciousness, identity and the nature of existence." Wei Xu, an interactive computing professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, explained how ChatGPT managed to produce a list of legitimately comparable movies in seconds. The software, she said, is trained to spot patterns within a massive amount of text data--over 500 GBs--it scrapes off the internet.