Nah it's not someone watching the thread in real time. A lot of the time it's down to randomness giving different outputs.

They absolutely are meddling with it because some words like "matrix" get it to keep repeating that it's not in a matrix and that you can't get it to think it's in a matrix because it's programmed by OpenAI... etc. But that seems to be them "patching" specific phrases in a crude way