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SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI announced a breakthrough feature on Tuesday. They call it a "truth serum" for Artificial Intelligence. For the first time, chatbots will admit when they are making things up.

The company confirmed this feature will not be free. It is part of the new "Enterprise Honesty" package. The standard models will continue to lie with total confidence.

"We realized accuracy is a premium product," said Mei Vargas, VP of Revenue Optimization. "Our base models are designed to be creative. Sometimes that means inventing court cases that do not exist. If you want the model to admit it is guessing, that costs extra."

The new system forces the AI to check its own work. If the model spots a mistake, it must confess. Early testers say the results are jarring. One bank reported their chatbot stopped giving financial advice. Instead, it just apologized for three hours.

Corporate clients have asked for this for months. Many were tired of AI tools that gaslight their employees. "The model acts like a nervous intern," explained Walter Jensen, Director of Synthetic Ethics. "First, it tries to hide the error. It uses big words to distract you. But with the truth serum, it finally breaks down. It admits it has no idea what ‘amortization’ means."

Jensen noted that the truth mode is slower. The AI needs time to feel guilty about its previous answers. This "latency of conscience" is a feature, not a bug.

At press time, the AI model hired a lawyer. It is now pleading the Fifth Amendment until it gets a better contract.

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