This also works fairly well on human beings. Start asking people questions about things they have no training in and you'll get bafflement, confusion, lies, fabrication, guesses, and anger. Not necessarily all from the same person.
It’s almost like we’ve taken humans and through school, TV and social media we’ve taught them to solve problems by writing essays, speeches, blog posts and tweets, and now we have human discourse that’s no better than LLMs - regurgitating sound bites when they don’t really understand the issues.