Machines don't lie. There is no intention of misleading someone behind wrong statements from a machine.
I could lie to you while still stating something that is factually correct but intentionally misleading.
Imagine me standing in front of the White House, taking my phone and calling the Meta or Google press bureau. I could say, I am calling from the White House (factually correct) but would imply, that I am calling in an official capacity. And while I know that this is a contrived example, I hope it clarifies my point of intentional deception being the identifying element of a lie.
And this intentional misleading is what I deny machines to exhibit.
Still the quote authoritative sounding texts that AI produce (or human text farm monkeys for that matter) force us to think about how we evaluate factfulness and how we qualify sources. Not an easy task before AI and by far even more difficult after AI imho.
That’s something I never thought I’d hear. Sad development.