A person would respond the same way? What exactly are you expecting as the output to those questions?

That's true and fair, and re-reading OP it doesn't address hallucinations exactly either. I was more thinking of it as a toy example for non-tech folk (grandma?) to see that what and how you ask LLMs matters in how the sycophancy will come out in the response. There may be better ways to demo that though :shrug:

Clickbait journalists answers like that, experts mostly don't. But it does make sense it mimics clickbait journalists more since it was trained on the internet.