The point of this thread is that the explanation a human gives carries some weight because the human know they may/will be held accountable for the truth of that explanation. ChatGPT's explanations carry no such weight, since ChatGPT itself has no concept of suffering consequences for its actions.

So, while both humans and ChatGPT can and do give bogus explanations for their actions, there are reasons to trust the humans' explanations more than ChatGPT's.

Whether or not we hold humans using ChatGPT accountable for their use of it is irrelevant to this thread.