"Ask Google's incredibly trustworthy AI model "is 2027 next year," and you'll get an answer that inconveniently conflicts with reality. "No, 2027 is not next year; 2027 is two years away from the current year (2026)," it confidently explains, "meaning next year is 2028, and the year after that is 2027, which is a common year starting on a Friday." A link icon lists several sources for this claim."
"But Google engineers aren't the only ones who'll need to confide in their chatbot wives or therapists to cope with the embarrassment: OpenAI's ChatGPT also struggles when asked if 2027 is next year. "No 🙂 2027 is not next year," it asserts (emphasis the AI's). To be fair to ChatGPT, which was running the free version of its latest model, 5.2, it does quickly catch its mistake. "Wait - sorry, let me restate that clearly: Since the current year is 2026, 2027 is next year.""
Major AI systems produced incorrect calendar information, sometimes claiming 2027 is not next year and even stating the current year as 2025. Google's AI Overview asserted that 2027 is two years away, claiming the current year was 2026 and that next year would be 2028. OpenAI's ChatGPT initially denied that 2027 was next year but quickly corrected itself, acknowledging that 2027 follows 2026. Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 made a similar error before revising its answer. Reddit users reported the issue lasting over a week, highlighting persistent hallucinations and unreliable factual outputs in public-facing AI models.
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