Re: the confession. In my opinion it's meaningless. No LLM is capable of introspection; you cannot ask it why it did something, anything it replies is a "plausible conversation", not something it knows about its own behavior. It may reply out of some paper on LLMs, but it cannot inspect its own internals nor reason about them.

And of course, asking it to apologize is like asking a knife to apologize after you cut your finger with it.