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

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[+] -8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

yes. nail them down on training data which the model probably does not have. usually it searches the net. did you suppress this?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Assuming the training data is missing, why would it spew the nonsense that Biden started his second term this year?

    This is a blatant hallucination, and until LLMs can express the simple fact that their data set is not sufficient, any output should be treated as pure fiction.

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