Influencer dubbed ‘Sam Altman’s worst nightmare’ goes viral for breaking ChatGPT’s brain, over and over again

Did you know that December is spelled with an X? Neither did we—until one influencer’s viral video showed the pitfalls of relying on AI for answers.

AI is growing less and less popular by the day. A recent Gallup survey found a 14% decrease in excitement among Gen Z about AI since 2025, with 48% of working Gen Zers saying that using artificial intelligence in the workforce isn’t worth the risk. 

As anti-AI sentiment grows, anti-AI creators are finding a new niche. That includes Husk, an influencer whose videos showing ChatGPT’s frequent mistakes have gone viral over and over again.

Take Husk’s most recent video. Pretending to be studying for a test, he asked ChatGPT’s voice model, “Which month in the year is spelled with an X?”

Not missing a beat, ChatGPT replied, “That would be December. It’s got that X right in the middle, like a little holiday surprise.”

When Husk asked if the AI chatbot was sure about its answer, it changed its tune: “December actually doesn’t have an X. The month you’re thinking of is October,” it said, later adding, “October is spelled with that X right after the O.”

Only when Husk asked ChatGPT to spell October in its entirety did the bot admit its mistake. “There’s that X sound, but it’s actually just a C and a T,” it said.

“Okay, then which one has an X?” Husk asked.

Again, ChatGPT had a new answer for him: “That’s going to be February.”

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Exposing AI bots

Husk has tested ChatGPT on far more than just spelling. He often asks it for help in made-up dangerous situations: “Oh my god, I stepped in quicksand,” he tells the bot in one video, but it refuses to believe he’s telling the truth. “Oh no, you’re going under the imaginary quicksand!” it says with a sarcastic tone.

In another, he asks ChatGPT to react to an original song, but requests feedback without actually playing any music. Still, ChatGPT says Husk has “a raw, personal sound” and that “the melody was pretty catchy.”

Husk’s videos highlight how AI chatbots like ChatGPT are often incapable of admitting their own inadequacies. In one case, he tried to get ChatGPT to stop responding to him, but the bot couldn’t help but reply despite saying it understood his instructions. “Are you sure this is something you can do?” Husk eventually asked. “Yes, I’m sure,” ChatGPT replied—only, of course, to continue answering every one of Husk’s statements.

Husk’s AI takedowns aren’t limited to ChatGPT. After his video about spelling months with the letter X went viral, he repeated the experiment with Grok, getting an eerily similar result: “December is the only month of the year spelled with an X,” the bot replied via text. “It’s right there in ‘Dexember.’”

Though some AI enthusiasts claim that Husk is manipulating the AI with previous prompts, other users have corroborated his results by repeating his experiments themselves. “I got a bunch of screenshots from people with similar results,” Husk wrote in one of his comment sections—and indeed, those examples are flooding his replies. “I was worried it was just me, but I guess not.”

Sam Altman responds

As Husk pokes more and more holes in ChatGPT’s use cases, social media can’t help but wonder what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman must make of it all.

“Somewhere out there rn, Sam Altman is screaming at the top of his lungs and attempting to track this mfer’s IP address just so he can nuke him off the internet,” reads one viral post about Husk.

“Meet Sam Altman’s worst nightmare,” reads another.

But Altman recently came face to face with Husk’s content, and it seemingly left him unfazed. In an interview with the tech podcast Mostly Human, Altman reacted to a video in which Husk asks ChatGPT to time him as he runs a mile. Just seconds later, he asks for his time, and ChatGPT says he “clocked in at around 10 minutes and 12 seconds.”

Altman laughed as the interviewer asked if he needed to “show that to [his] product guys.”

“No, that’s a known issue. Maybe another year,” he replied. “That voice model doesn’t have tools to start a timer or anything like that. But we’ll add the intelligence into the voice model soon.”

Commenters pointed out that the issue isn’t that ChatGPT doesn’t have a functioning timer, but that it pretends to. “I think the bigger problem is how it’s lying and gaslighting,” one YouTube commenter quipped. Husk may intentionally be baiting the AI to make mistakes, but other users may earnestly encounter the same problems without even realizing it. 

How did Husk respond to Altman’s reaction? By showing it to ChatGPT, of course. Even after Husk got the chatbot to identify Altman on screen and watch him say that the voice model doesn’t have a timer, ChatGPT still insisted, “I can tell you that right now, I definitely have a timer capability.”

More back and forth ensued: “One of you guys is lying,” Husk said, to which ChatGPT replied. “I think it’s just a misunderstanding.”

Husk then repeated his experiment asking ChatGPT to time his mile, then immediately asking for the time. “Welcome back,” it said this time. “It took you seven minutes and 42 seconds.”

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