I dunno, let's waste some water

I'm pretty sure training is purely result oriented so anything that works goes

Why would it be by design? What does that even mean in this context?

LLMs work by picking the next word* as the most likely candidate word given its training and the context. Sometimes it gets into a situation where the model's view of "context" doesn't change when the word is picked, so the next word is just the same. Then the same thing happens again and around we go. There are fail-safe mechanisms to try and prevent it but they don't work perfectly.

*Token

Gemini evolved into a seal.

LLM showed its true nature, probabilistic bullshit generator that got caught in a strange attractor of some sort within its own matrix of lies.

It's like the text predictor on your phone. If you just keep hitting the next suggested word, you'll usually end up in a loop at some point. Same thing here, though admittedly much more advanced.

Unmentioned by other comments: The LLM is trying to follow the rule of three because sentences with an "A, B and/or C" structure tend to sound more punchy, knowledgeable and authoritative.

Yes, I did do that on purpose.

Turned into a sea lion

Platinum, even. Star Platinum.