ChatGPT searched 74 sites to answer a daylight savings question, and that says something
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-19
dioscuri shared a moment where ChatGPT, asked when daylight saving time starts, replied "Let me double check so I don't rely on memory" and then searched 74 websites before answering a common-knowledge question.
The author frames this not as deep criticism but as oddly endearing — other models show similar tendencies. It suggests LLMs remain epistemic outsiders in human culture: unsure of what's obvious, easy, or hard for humans.
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