>> Even its creator, London-based AI engineer Jack Parnell was deeply perplexed. “I’ve never said, ‘Go and research stuff,’” says Parnell,

Oh, the drama. Mr Parnell seems oblivious to the existence of system prompts, harness prompting and training data - any of these, alone or in some combination, could trigger "research" and together with lousy user prompting can do anything at all.

The problem is closed LLM providers, we don't know what they do on their end and inside their harnesses on ours.