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I don't think you understand either the concept of Statistics or the one of common sense.
You're comparing frequent extreme events of an obviously nonsensical nature by LLMs given very limited responsibility (like the one were it tells a person with suicidal thoughts to "kill yourself") with rare events due to design failures of highly complex systems in situations of huge responsibility.
That's not merely as mismatched as an "apples" and "oranges" comparison, that's as mismatched as an "apples" and "major engineering project" comparison.
Now ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for apple pie.
What's complex about "there's a salt mine under this lake you're drilling in?" Or "you're putting a gas tank in the most common impact crumple zone on the vehicle?" or "We've seen this problem before, many times, but we're just going to continue to let it happen again and again?"