Yesterday I asked a frontier model to help generate a report. It said great, it can do that, and output a table. I asked it to evaluate its prompt compliance in the result. It concluded that it had failed on every requirement. I asked why it had expressed such confidence, was it analagous to narcissism or psycopathy? It said no, and then said that if I just had to anthropomorphize it, I should think of it as a brilliant friend with severe frontal lobe brain damage.

That actually helps.