AI voices gave conflicting Bitcoin year-end forecasts

On 23 October 2026 Bitcoin sat near $81,200. That day Grok, ChatGPT and Claude Opus 5.5 were asked for a year-end price via voice and text. None showed the calculation behind its number.

Voice ChatGPT opened at $89,500 then settled at $82,000. Grok also landed on $82,000. Claude’s text version stayed at $78,000 while its voice session ended at $85,000. All sounded certain.

Grok claimed a 90 % chance the Fed would hike rates on 27–28 October. Market odds stood between 6 % and 18 %. The model used stale data yet delivered the claim with the same tone it used for accurate facts.

The test revealed how fluent speech can mimic careful analysis even when little evidence supports it. The gap between voice and text modes proved wider than the differences among the models themselves.

Based on information from cryptonews.net