Once he started asking it to imagine ping, it really looked like a live VM with Internet connection. Since this is possible, it would have been worth asking it

Once he started asking it to imagine ping, it really looked like a live VM with Internet connection. Since this is possible, it would have been worth asking it to ping one of the writer's own servers by IP address and then checking the logs (outside of chatGPT, in real life) to see if chatGPT really pings it just then or if it would just hallucinate a result.