Just got schooled by an AI.
According to Wiktionary:
(UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/
...there are indeed only two /ɹ/ in strawberry.
So much for dissing on AIs for not being able to count.
There is a middle ground between "blindly rejecting" and "blindly believing" whatever an AI says.
LLMs use tokens. The answer is "correct, in its own way", one just needs to explore why and how much. Turns out, that can also lead to insights.