Well, so what? I'm sure someone at Microsoft has added a "guard rail" where if you tell it that it's hallucinating, it'll probably terminate the conversation as

Well, so what? I'm sure someone at Microsoft has added a "guard rail" where if you tell it that it's hallucinating, it'll probably terminate the conversation as it's thus a waste of time and energy, or to avoid it potentially getting offensive, which has been a problem for Microsoft in the past. You can persist for a long time with ChatGPT, trying to correct it, believing you're getting somewhere, but not infrequently, it doesn't get any better, sometimes it even gets worse. It was a waste of time.