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I saw this on reddit, thinking it’s a joke, but it’s not. GPT 5 mini (and maybe sometimes 5) gives this answer. You can check it yourself, or see somebody else’s similar conversation here: https://chatgpt.com/share/689a4f6f-18a4-8013-bc2e-84d11c763a99
That's funny though because I know Copilot can google things and talk about them.
Like, a news story can appear that day, and you go "Did you hear about the guy that did X and Y?" and Copilot will google it and be like "Oh yeah you're referring to the news story that came out today about the guy that did X and Y. It was reported in Newspaper that Z was also involved" and then send you a link to the article.
So like... GPT5 should be able to supplement its knowledge with basic searching, it just doesn't.
Personally, as someone who prefers it when software only does things I direct it to, I'd rather that an LLM not automatically search for the answer online if I didn't ask it to.