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"cheat", "lie", "cover up"... Assigning human behavior to Stochastic Parrots again, aren't we Jimmy?
Ethical theories and the concept of free will depend on agency and consciousness. Things as you point out, LLMs don't have. Maybe we've got it all twisted?
I'm not anthropomorphising ChatGPT to suggest that it's like us, but rather that we are like it.
Edit: "stochastic parrot" is an incredibly clever phrase. Did you come up with that yourself or did the irony of repeating it escape you?
For what it's worth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot