GPT 4.5 seems to get it right, but then repeat the 700 pounds
"A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
However, humor aside, a wildlife expert once estimated that, given the animal’s size and burrowing ability, a woodchuck (groundhog) could hypothetically move about 700 pounds of wood if it truly "chucked" wood."
https://chatgpt.com/share/680a75c6-cec8-8012-a573-798d2d8f6b...
That answer is exactly right, and those who say the 700 pound thing is a hallucination are themselves wrong: https://chatgpt.com/share/680aa077-f500-800b-91b4-93dede7337...
Linking to ChatGPT as a “source” is unhelpful, since it could well have made that up too. However, with a bit of digging, I have confirmed that the information it copied from Wikipedia here is correct, though the AP and Spokane Times citations are both derivative sources; Mr. Thomas’s comments were first published in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, on July 11, 1988: https://democratandchronicle.newspapers.com/search/results/?...
Linking to ChatGPT as a “source” is unhelpful, since it could well have made that up too
No, it absolutely is helpful, because it links to its source. It takes a grand total of one additional click to check its answer.
Anyone who still complains about that is impossible to satisfy, and should thus be ignored.
I've heard the answer is "he could cut a cord of conifer but it costs a quarter per quart he cuts".