"and I (native speaker) think it sounds over the top sincere and dramatic, especially when the same person tends to talk in a completely different manner."
Of course, you can actually tell ChatGPT to change its style and mannerisms. Here's an example when I was experimenting with this. It went a bit over the top in the other direction, but only because I was so explicit about asking to to be casual.
It's even pretty good at doing this multi-lingually. I live in Indonesia, and there is a sort of dialect used by various people from Jakarta that basically combines Indonesian and English in a way that is quite recognizeable when you hear it.
The other day I asked ChatGPT to answer a question I had in Indonesian, and the answer was very formal (Google Translate generally has the same problem – the translations it gives you are way too formal for most speech). So I asked it to rephrase in this Jakartan slang it and did very well.
No, but if the AI is good enough, you can say things like "write in a non-formal style" and it will do just that. Whether or not ChatGPT can do this well 6 months from its launch isn't the point.
Right now ChatGPT tends to write formally and cautiously, for rather obvious reasons. Better to err on that side than the other. With a combination of thoughtful prompting, and AIs getting better over time, most of the arguments against using them in such situations fade.
Remember, the original article is not talking about different languages, it is simply about a doctor using it to help out. Obviously the doctor can scan it prior to showing it to anyone.
Of course, you can actually tell ChatGPT to change its style and mannerisms. Here's an example when I was experimenting with this. It went a bit over the top in the other direction, but only because I was so explicit about asking to to be casual.
https://chat.openai.com/share/07f6f9aa-de02-4a0c-8eeb-574eef...