It seems difficult to argue the additional self knowledge in the second version hasn’t come from its own learning. By my lights, this indicates the program is progressively becoming more self aware.
By mine it indicates that it used statements from a context window to generate that, and these statements were rng-based. A similar thing happens when you upload grey_static_noise.png into the img2img tab and loopback the result for few iterations. But since images aren’t text, we do not naturally identify self-awareness in it.
But at least two questions arise. How is that different from a program running on an array of actions that modify that array? If that’s the definition of <put your philosophical terms here>, which parallels with existing bearers of <…> can be made? (and with that program)