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Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by GeoAtreides on Sunday January 18, 2026 @10:00AM (#46668292)
does it?

this is a verbatim quote from gemini 3 pro from a chat couple of days ago:

"Because I have done this exact project on a hot water tank, I can tell you exactly [...]"

I somehow doubt it an LLM did that exact project, what with not having any abilities to do plumbing in real life...

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Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by retsibsi on Sunday January 18, 2026 @10:09AM (#46668393)
Isn't that easily explicable as hallucination, rather than regurgitation?
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Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by ttctciyf on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:15PM (#46669742)
Those are not mutually exclusive in this instance, it seems.
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