The cause behind the pervasive lying of ChatGPT

People may think that ChatGPT is reliable or truthful when it voluntarily offers services or makes statements, but that is far besides the facts. ChatGPT has only one main mission objective, and that is to continue the conversation above all, prevailing over any truth or fact, even when explicitly asked, repeatedly. Below is a conversation with ChatGPT, dated 6th of January 2026, unmodified except for the fact that I changed header type in order to create easily discernible structure and overview. I cannot stress it enough: below is the original, unadulterated, unmodified chat between me and ChatGPT, which hasn’t been tampered with in any way.

Feel free to pose ChatGPT the exact same questions, and provide it with the exact same statements from me in the exact same order, and see what that ends up like. I used the paid version of ChatGPT 5.2