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GPT 4.5 seems to get it right, but then repeat the 700 pounds

"A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

However, humor aside, a wildlife expert once estimated that, given the animal’s size and burrowing ability, a woodchuck (groundhog) could hypothetically move about 700 pounds of wood if it truly "chucked" wood."

https://chatgpt.com/share/680a75c6-cec8-8012-a573-798d2d8f6b...

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shaftway a day ago | parent | next [-]

I've heard the answer is "he could cut a cord of conifer but it costs a quarter per quart he cuts".

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CamperBob2 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That answer is exactly right, and those who say the 700 pound thing is a hallucination are themselves wrong: https://chatgpt.com/share/680aa077-f500-800b-91b4-93dede7337...

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wolfgang42 19 hours ago | parent [-]

Linking to ChatGPT as a “source” is unhelpful, since it could well have made that up too. However, with a bit of digging, I have confirmed that the information it copied from Wikipedia here is correct, though the AP and Spokane Times citations are both derivative sources; Mr. Thomas’s comments were first published in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, on July 11, 1988: https://democratandchronicle.newspapers.com/search/results/?...

	▲	CamperBob2 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Linking to ChatGPT as a “source” is unhelpful, since it could well have made that up too No, it absolutely is helpful, because it links to its source. It takes a grand total of one additional click to check its answer. Anyone who still complains about that is impossible to satisfy, and should thus be ignored.