> Real humans hallucinate a lot as well or confidently state subtly wrong ideas, it’s a good habit anyway.

I think that's actually deeply different. If a human keeps on apologizing because they are being caught in a lie, or just a mistake, you distrust them a LOT more. It's not normal to shrug off a problem then REPEAT it.

I imagine the cost of a mistake is exponential, not linear. So when somebody says "oops, you got me there!" I don't mistrust them just marginally more, I distrust them a LOT more and it will take a ton of effort, if even feasible, to get back to the initial level of trust.

I do not think it's at all equivalent to what "Real humans" do. Yes, we do mistake, but the humans you trust and want to partner with are precisely the one who are accountable when they make mistakes.