There are probably thousands of scifi books where the moon has some forms of helium 3 mining. Considering Google pirated and used them all for training it makes sense that it puts it in present tense.
I wonder how much memory and computing time goes into making them, vs. a typical "proper" LLM prompt. It's like the freebies you get with a Christmas cracker.
On a similar note, Gemini told that I was born in 2025 when I did a cursory search for my real name. It's rather confident.
I asked ChatGPT how much of the volume between sea level and the height of the highest building is taken up by manmade structures. It came up with 0.0007% and confidently claimed it's less than a millionth of a percent. When I called it out on the millionth thing, it doubled down.
I googled for "helium 3" yesterday. Google's AI answer said that helium 3 is "primarily sourced from the moon", as if we were actively mining it there already.