The earlier GPT-3 models aren’t really like that, I wonder if their army of supervised trainers for InstructGPT were just instructed to write like that?
It’s an easy style to replicate. This wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
I think waffling and trying to be equivocal before coming to some sort of conclusion just scores well in chatbot training, especially when the bot picks up on the subject matter but not the precise intent of the prompt or has a lot of conflicting statements in its corpus to summarise.