ChatGPT confidently repeated a wrong iPhone price twice before user forced a check
InternationalFigure2 · reddit · 2026-09-25
A user asked ChatGPT for the current iPhone 17 256GB price in Canada and got an outdated figure. When challenged, the model didn't check Apple's store — it gave another wrong price. Only after the user explicitly stated the price he was seeing did the model verify and confirm.
The poster argues the behavior pattern is more concerning than the initial error: faced with pushback, the model confidently repeated its wrong answer instead of verifying. It's another example of retrieval being triggered only after the answer was fed to the model.
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