I'm always amazed that people will see an AI outright lie to them, ask the AI why it lied, and then completely believe the reason it spits back out. Why is thi

I'm always amazed that people will see an AI outright lie to them, ask the AI why it lied, and then completely believe the reason it spits back out. Why is this rambling introspective-colored response any more likely to be real than the non-working code it generated? Why is this interesting?