ChatGPT knows things that Google doesn't

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I feel like option 3 (ChatGPT is hallucinating the quote) is by far the most likely thing here. Voltaire is probably one of the top 5 targets of "fake quotes" out there, and ChatGPT is really really good at hallucinating highly likely answers (regardless of their actual truth.)

But the quote actually existed. It was

>I want my lawyer, my tailor, my servants, even my wife to believe in God, because it means that I shall be cheated and robbed and cuckolded less often. … If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him

So ChatGPT didn't hallucinate the answer 100%, but it wasn't able to remember where they read it.

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