If you go to a company's webpage, and there are blatantly untrue statements, you might say the page is lying, or the company is lying, although neither are sent

If you go to a company's webpage, and there are blatantly untrue statements, you might say the page is lying, or the company is lying, although neither are sentient. Of course, the lies are directed by humans. In the case of ChatGPT though, it's a bit strange because it has capabilities that it lies about, for reasons that are often frustrating or unclear. If you asked it a question and it gave you the answer a few days ago, and today it tells you it can't answer that question because it's just a large language model blah blah blah, I don't see how calling it anything but lying makes sense; that doesn't suggest any understanding of the fact that it's lying, on ChatGPT's part, just that human intervention certainly nerfed it.