A lot of chatbots from 20 years ago did that. They would even use it as a escape route, and would just bring back the previous topic of conversation (from say 1

A lot of chatbots from 20 years ago did that. They would even use it as a escape route, and would just bring back the previous topic of conversation (from say 10 lines ago) when they could not figure out something to come up for the current prompt. It really didn't help the illusion; rather it was even more obvious.