[MVissers]

Humans do this unconsciously as well. You have some extreme medical conditions like confabulation where people just make up the strangest things.

Split-brain personality people can make up stories when you prompted the other brain, and the current half has to explain why it did something.

I'm baffled also that reverse psychology even works on LLMs, to bypass some of its safeties. I mean.. We're using psychological tricks that work on toddlers and also work on these models.

I'm an amateur neuroscientist as you can see, but find LLMs fascinating.