I have asked ChatGPT about a local tax law before and it gave a response that sounds confident but it was completely wrong. I nearly use it in a work I was researching. I also ask it about the current exchange rate and it gave me a figure from 2023. Who else has caught AI giving the wrong response?

Yeah I've had them just not tell the truth and I'm thinking they just don't have all of the facts. Also they are programmed and certain answers that the programmers don't like will be highly reflected in their answers as being wrong..

Grok was wrong about certain tax laws. I also found they will defend a stance because it is widely mainstream but criticisms or pointing out mainstream knowledge being wrong is always ostracized at worst or framed under “some critics argue” while the mainstream idea is accepted completely as fact.

Not very wrong, but still incorrect—especially in the past, when AI first emerged in chat form and the free versions lacked internet access. Nowadays, the vast majority have internet connectivity, and they generally don’t make such serious errors, nor do they make them as often.

I have had this happen a few times when asking for advice on something such as finance and investing. Had I not gone out of my way to check the information that ChatGPT told me, I would have made a huge mistake and ended up in a huge mess!

I check everything now, especially if it is a question I can not afford to be wrong on when using any AI.