> if a gun kills a person it's functioning as intended, but you can't say the same for a chat bot

Of course you can. AI has been deployed in multiple military campaigns.

A gun doesn't kill a person without being driven to action by a human. There are numerous alternative weapons to use, like using a candlestick in the conservatory or a rope in the lead pipe in the study for example.

Their job is to generate text if that text is good or bad they are functioning as intended.