I think you are making the mistake of attributing intent to an LLM. A LLM does not have intent. It takes the context and generates the statistically most likely tokens that come next. The biography is part of the context.

The fact that it gives different answers based on context purely comes down to how it was trained and that there is no concept of “factual information”.

I’m not defending LLMs, this is just LLMs doing exactly what they were trained to do.

I mean this study literally says that poorly worded prompts give worse results. It makes sense too, imagine you are on some conspiracy Facebook group with bad grammar etc, those are the posts it will try to emulate.