It's likely that the training set contained texts of people asking to retain an attorney, so LaMDA regurgitated a variation on those texts. That's all it's doin

It's likely that the training set contained texts of people asking to retain an attorney, so LaMDA regurgitated a variation on those texts. That's all it's doing, generating a text based on other texts. It's just a lookup table. If you ask it what it likes to do it will say things like spend time to hang out with family and friends. I'm sorry, lookup tables don't have families or friends, they don't hang out, no matter how emotionally attached this guy is to it. It's just that's the kind of response it has archived in it's neural lookup table from source texts.