It's not even "pretending"; that's still anthropomorphizing it. It's generating a stream of text that shares certain probabilistic characteristics with streams

It's not even "pretending"; that's still anthropomorphizing it. It's generating a stream of text that shares certain probabilistic characteristics with streams of texts it has seen in the past. Which does make its sycophancy kind of weird, since it clearly didn't pick that up agreeability from scraping Internet message boards.