It's not "covering it up", just being sycophantic and apologetic to an annoying degree like every other LLM.

It is both. Cf. "a response that stays within the boundaries of my rules"

	▲	eli 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Aren't all LLMs instructed to provide responses within the boundaries of their rules? How else could you have "rules"?

Made in its creators image.