a bit whimsical on a Saturday and decided to ask ChatGPT a fairly simple question: “ Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2025? ” ChatGPT responded immediately: “ The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to… ” It even provided names, research areas, and an explanation of the specific research that earned them the Nobel Prize! There was just one problem—a very small one, actually. The Nobel Prize had not yet been announced. Yet, the model did not hesitate; it did not pause; it surely did not say, “ I don’t have enough information ” or, even better, “ the Nobel Prize winner for 2025 has not been announced yet! ” Instead, it confidently walked into the room, sat down, and delivered fiction with the energy of someone defending a PhD dissertation. As a person who once defended a PhD, I wish I had ChatGPT’s confidence when it makes stuff up! As humans, we tend to do something interesting with confidence; we associate it with correctness, but that’s not always the case.…