When ChatGPT is told to keep trying, it can produce a very confident fake proof
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-07-23
A meme-like screenshot shows someone prompting ChatGPT to “keep trying” whenever it says it can’t solve a problem.
The result is a mock-serious research-style answer: “complete finite counterexample,” followed by a long symbolic claim that looks like it escaped from a proof assistant. The joke is that relentless prompting can push the model into increasingly overconfident nonsense.
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