I saw this on reddit, thinking it’s a joke, but it’s not. GPT 5 mini (and maybe sometimes 5) gives this answer. You can check it yourself, or see somebody else’s similar conversation here: https://chatgpt.com/share/689a4f6f-18a4-8013-bc2e-84d11c763a99
Maybe it is not up to date
That's not a valid reason to lie. If it does not have the information it should state as much. This post underscores one of the biggest issues with AI. It will confidently say whatever "statistically plausible" thing regardless of the actual truth.
Edit: in case there is any confusion, by "should" I mean in an ideal scenario where ai is able to be used the way people think they can currently use it. I'm aware that it's not really how ai works hence the remainder of the comment making note of the statistically plausible bit. AI makes factual errors on things that could arguably be answered with its current dataset (how many bs in blueberry etc) and this is not an issue with the dataset, it's a side effect with the way LLMs work. They are not reasoning machines. They are fancy algorithms. This makes them impractical for use in several areas where they're already being deployed and that's a problem.
You don't understand how AI works under the hood. It can't tell you it's lying, because it doesn't know the concept lying. In fact - it doesn't know ANYTHING, literally. It's not thinking, it's predicting. It's speculating what the viable answer would look like based on his dataset.
You don't actually get real answers to your questions - you only get a text that the AI determined may seem most fitting to your prompt.
Correct.
Therefore selling it as something capable of reliably correctly answering questions is a criminal scam.