[muellero]

Choosing plausible sounding fabrication over an admission of ignorance is not an uncommon modality among the human beings I interact with, so I'm not surprised this pattern is found in models trained on human interactions.

[OtomotO]

Totally fine. Then let's just not pretend these "AI"s are somehow better at it.

That's the whole problem with all of these discussions. It's whataboutism and "You're holding it wrong" allegations.