I couldn't convince ChatGPT that the capital of West Virginia is Huntington (it's not, it's Charleston), until I told it to check wv.gov (which of course it cannot do), which caused it to finally concede the point.

Consider this your periodic reminder that ChatGPT doesn't "think" anything but is just completing sentences with statistically-likely conclusions.

ChatGPT will go along with New York Times URLs every time. IME you can get it to go along with basically anything with this technique.
@waldoj omg this whole thing is such a niche joke, I love it