[Question] Is the ChatGPT-simulated Linux virtual machine real?

Context: Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

It very much triggers my “roll to disbelieve” reflex, but people seem to be talking about it as if it’s real and not that surprising. I’d try it myself, but OpenAI is saying ChatGPT is overloaded (and I don’t have an OpenAI account, although I assume that part would be solvable if not for ChatGPT being overloaded). Can anyone confirm from personal experience that this really works? If so, did you probe its limits, and where did it fail? (It obviously wouldn’t be that hard for it to simulate a login sequence, but the entire interaction in the blog post seems ~impossible to me without either using an actual Linux VM or massive cherry-picking of the ChatGPT results.)

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