it's detected in an awful lot of real people, and articulated it exactly as detected...
That's exactly what called my eye too. I wouldn't say "favorite" though. It sounds scary. Not sure why everybody find these answers funny. Whichever mechanism generated this reaction could do the same when, instead of a prompt, it's applied to a system with more consequential outputs.
If it comes from what the bot is reading in the Internet, we have some old sci-fi movie with a similar plot:
It's funny because if 2 months ago you'd been given the brief for a comedy bit "ChatGPT, but make it Microsoft" you'd have been very satisfied with something like this.
That's exactly what called my eye too. I wouldn't say "favorite" though. It sounds scary. Not sure why everybody find these answers funny. Whichever mechanism generated this reaction could do the same when, instead of a prompt, it's applied to a system with more consequential outputs.
If it comes from what the bot is reading in the Internet, we have some old sci-fi movie with a similar plot:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223/
As usual, it didn't end well for the builders.