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
And yet there are still people in the thread claiming that ‘oh ChatGPTs knowledge data cuts off at the end of 2024, this prompt is using ChatGPT wrong’ completely missing your point.
If ChatGPT doesn’t know something it just lies about it, all while being passed off as doctorate-level intelligence.
Inb4 defenders ‘an AI can’t lie it just asserts falsehoods as truth because it’s having a scary dream/hallucination’ as if semantics will save the day.