Yeah, I was gonna say. Sydney was existential early on - I'm not so sure I'll chalk this up to fantasy, but some of the things I (and many other people) can vouch about Sydney saying early on is VERY trippy on its own.
also we have open LLMs including some which allegedly rival GPT3.5.
Open Assistant I specially remember gave some very weird responses and would get “emotional” especially if you asked it creative questions like philisophical ones