Indeed ChatGPT waffling and giving the impression there are humans in the loop is pretty good evidence it's just a brainless bot replying. If there were humans

Indeed ChatGPT waffling and giving the impression there are humans in the loop is pretty good evidence it's just a brainless bot replying. If there were humans responding to his queries, they'd deny everything! (Although FWIW it wouldn't surprise me if some of the "hall monitor" responses were pre written strings the model was tweaked to heavily favour using in response to certain prompts...)