Even this kind of project only helps so much. ChatGPT has absolutely no understanding of anything, it just regurgitates words and sentences in a way that sounds like it knows something. It's next sentence might be completely, dangerously wrong. You can't even claim that it lies to you. It needs to have an inkling of the truth to be able to lie in the first place. It's basically a well-trained parrot that has learned when to say the right combinations of phrases it's memorized at the right time in the right order to earn a treat. It has no idea what any given word means, let alone what it just said.
If someone built something that parsed sentences, stored facts, learned relationships between them, learned enough language processing to make connections between them in order to be able to say something new about the subject it didn't already know before-hand, then I'd be on that train. Right now I only see misery in our future if we just work on honing ChatGPT and it's ilk to better simulate BS.