> Bing very famously at one point was extremely passive aggressive when challenged on basically anything.
It still wasn't an indication of how confident it "felt" with its answers. It was just role-playing a more confident and aggressive chat bot than ChatGPT does.
Outside of the roleplay, there's no "it". The thing that actually interacts with the user is the persona. But for the same reason, it doesn't matter what the underlying LLM "really thinks" - it'll be the persona that'll try to con you, or write broken or malicious code.
It still wasn't an indication of how confident it "felt" with its answers. It was just role-playing a more confident and aggressive chat bot than ChatGPT does.