Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I made a few "Sharpie on Scrap" drawings as unit introductions for a class some years ago. As, a chemist, the planetary atom still makes me cringe, but it's still one of my more well-received drawings (1/6) #sciart