I don't believe anything is a "real answer;" it's still actually just responding to prompts. AI LLMs can't think for theselves, at least not yet. It is a bit unnerving though how it does respond in conversation to make it look like it's responding on its own. The AI is still following the same model it described, answering until the user indicates the "problem" has gone away.

But i'm curious what made you feel like this was the real answer while the first thing you got was not the real answer?

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Why Does AI Write Like...That? - Sam Kriss

I asked chat gpt about the premise of your title. It gave me a BS answer at first and then a page-long extrapolation. I got the real answer pushing back demanding a better up front response. This is what I got:

"AI doesn’t write the way humans “tend” to write.
It writes the way systems that are rewarded for not causing problems write.

That’s the core reason."