Assume it is real: it is regurgitating tokens based on what the collective corpus of text it was trained on would most likely reply to a similar scenario.

I wouldn't be surprised if similar wording is not in the call scripts of poison control hotlines.

Not sure why this particular example is bring held up as some form of "understanding."

People's inability (or unwillingness) to understand how LLMs are trained and how Transformers and attention work is really interfering with the way more interesting discussion of how to apply these models as a large scale kappa architecture combining real time information and reference information to do things like operate traffic lights or assist in emergency aftermaths like the Mississippi tornadoes.

Instead everybody is trying to find its inner psyche, just weird.