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Don't get your tech reporting from The Guardian. This headline is so stupid. They can't help but anthropomorphize LLMs, because they just don't known any better.
This right here. Just about everything in here is awful, and implies decision making and thought processes that straight up do not and have never existed in any AI model whatsoever.
What happened was they threw an awfully-scoped statistics model at problems the program couldn't possibly generate good outputs for, and surprise surprise, it generated bad outputs. The part that's of interest is just how bad the output was, and even then, only in a schadenfreude-filled "it was bound to happen eventually" manner.
It didn't confess it just outputted more plausible garbage based on inputs.
It just agreed with the accusations, because these models do what they're trained to do: Agree with the prompter.
No, not necessarily; they can easily, even condescendingly go against your view depending on the topic. It really depends on the topic and the conversational flow.