{"id":163080,"date":"2025-09-23T09:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163080\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:09:09","slug":"chatgpt-has-a-stroke-when-you-ask-it-this-specific-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163080\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Has a Stroke When You Ask It This Specific Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two months since the release of GPT-5, an update to ChatGPT that was supposed to give it \u201cPhD level<\/a>\u201d intelligence and bring it once step closer to the industry\u2019s vaunted goal of artificial general intelligence (AGI), the OpenAI chatbot is still going bizarrely haywire over simple and completely innocuous inquiries.<\/p>\n

On the ChatGPT subreddit, fans of the AI bot noticed<\/a> that asking it if there\u2019s an \u201cNFL team whose name doesn\u2019t end with the letter \u2018s’\u201d sends it into a long-winded meltdown, allowing you to witness its superpowered \u201creasoning\u201d abilities turn to mush in real time.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes \u2014 there are two NFL teams whose names don\u2019t end with an \u2018s,’\u201d ChatGPT says, before proceeding to list two teams that do. \u201cMiami Dolphins? \u274c end with s. Green Bay Packers? \u274c ends with s.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an odd way of addressing the question. ChatGPT correctly identifies that those names do end with s, but why bring them up? <\/p>\n

Then it looks like it\u2019s cutting to the chase \u2014 at least, that is, until it goes off the rails yet again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only two teams that don\u2019t end with \u2018s\u2019 are: Miami Dolphins \u274c no (wait, ends with s),\u201d it says, catching its mistake. \u201cHold up, let\u2019s do this carefully. Actually, the correct answer is: Washington Commanders \u274c ends with s. Chicago Bears \u274c ends with s.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the original example uploaded to Reddit, ChatGPT goes on like this for several more paragraphs. And it never arrives at the correct answer \u2014 that there aren\u2019t any teams that don\u2019t end in an \u201cs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like a high schooler hitting a word count, it peddles irrelevant details while teasing a conclusion. It also peppers in phrases to make it sound like it\u2019s actually doing some deep thinking. \u201cHold up, let\u2019s do this carefully,\u201d it says. Or \u201clet me do this systematically.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe actual correct answer is,\u201d ChatGPT says at one point, not realizing the shtick is getting old.<\/p>\n

Eventually, it promises \u201cthe correct answer (for real this time).\u201d It says it will list \u201ctwo teams\u201d that don\u2019t end with \u201cs\u201d \u2014 before listing an additional three teams that do.<\/p>\n

Other users posted examples where ChatGPT eventually gives the correct answer, but only after stringing the user along a similarly delirious spiel. In our testing, it produced similar bizarre results.<\/p>\n

This is far from the first time the chatbot has been foiled by<\/a> a simple question<\/a> \u2014 or even melted down in such an incredibly circuitous manner. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month, for instance, fans noticed that asking it if a mythical seahorse emoji existed<\/a> sent it spiraling into a crisis of logic.\u00a0Despite the aquatic creature never being part of the official emoji dictionary, ChatGPT insisted it was real, exemplifying the absurd lengths AI is willing to go to to please the user<\/a>. What\u2019s bending a few facts if the AI gets to come off as personable and human-like, convincing users that they should come back for more?<\/p>\n

Sycophancy probably isn\u2019t the only factor to blame. GPT-5 is actually a tag team of a lightweight model for basic prompts and a heavy duty \u201creasoning\u201d model for tougher questions. What\u2019s probably going on here is that the lightweight model is getting stuck with a question it can\u2019t really handle, instead of handing it off to its smarter cousin. This often malfunctioning dynamic<\/a> is part of the reason why fans were left feeling disappointed \u2014 and in many cases, furious<\/a>\u2014 with GPT-5\u2019s launch (which was only exacerbated by OpenAI cutting off access to the old models that its customers had grown attached to, a decision it soon reversed<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

In any case, it\u2019s a pretty thin excuse. If the AI needs to bust out its biggest guns to answer such a simple question, then maybe it\u2019s not on the fast-track to surpassing human intelligence.<\/p>\n

More on AI: ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly two months since the release of GPT-5, an update to ChatGPT that was supposed to give it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-163080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}