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TBH, this is barely any different from marketing promising that a product will have a feature that the development team only find out about later purely by accident when upper management asks about it.
It's much different because you can fire your salespeople for failing to consult with the engineering team, promising shit that is impossible, going to damage your brand and reputation, and provide little-to-no return on investment.
The biggest difference is that you can't fire ChatGPT (as much as I desperately wish we could)
OK, yeah, you can't control a third party's promises (or hallucinations), but the boss isn't going to fire someone from sales and/or marketing. They'll fire the developer for failing to deliver.