Can Anyone Help Me Understand This Output Received From Text-Davinci?

Recently, while testing out Q&A style prompts, I asked the Davinci model whether it can perform market research (A/B testing, surveys, keyword analysis, etc) to which it replied that it was indeed capable. So, I provided a specific target demographic of people to survey along with a list of a few generic ad headlines and asked the model to write out the CTR data collected from the survey. While it replied with seemingly realistic results, the speed at which it produced the data made me skeptical as to the validity of what was produced.

Can anyone tell me whether this model is actually capable of performing these types of requests or is it just making up this info? For reference, I have the Temperature set to 0 and all other settings at default.

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It’s a model.
It predicts which next word is more likely.
It does not magic data into existence.

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