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I often wonder about that. Trying to do this or that or whatever, on my phone or Windows or Word, I google and the directions don't work for the current version, because Apple and Microsoft like to take the same functions and hide them or shuffle them around, change the wording of the menus, etc.
How well can AI tell from reading 20 years of help posts and manuals what the correct answer is for the most current version of any particular software? The older version probably has a lot more posts about the old process of doing the same thing, if it's gauging "correct" by number of posts that agree.
It can't. ChatGPT and the like are not thinking about things and finding the correct answer, they're predicting the most statistically likely word to follow on from what have been previously output. As you say given a larger number of training samples for a given thing it might be more likely to output a somewhat correct answer but it just as easily might not.
I mean if you are using an actual coding tool for AI and not online chatgpt: It knows because it has access to your (likely already large) codebase, and either it can search for other usages of the same function in your codebase, or you have already directed it to a file to use as an example.
Online gpt will never be able to give reliable answers for your codebase.