LLMs just follow scripts learned from human written text. In other words, it could only behave that way because someone has written a story to do so. In short, stop giving them bad ideas ;-)
I hypothesize it partially explains why Claude's writing gets more Claudish with almost every model release.
Apparently LLMs aren't smart enough to understand that when the topic changes nobody cared for the discarded solution!
Oh user modified the code after my edit. Let me re read
This basically sounds like a Terminator style threat lol