> This is surprising given the excellent capabilities of GPT-5.2

The real surprise is that someone writing a paper on LLMs doesn't understand the baseline capabilities of a hallucinatory text generator (with tool use disabled).

The real suprise is people saying it's surprising when researchers and domain experts state something the former think goes against common sense/knowledge - as if they got them, and those researcers didn't already think their naive counter-argument already.