I am just a *teensy* bit tired of people posting "I asked AI a question and I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that it replied with garbage". Of course there's a very high chance it will reply with garbage: it's literally a making-shit-up-engine. - ThreadSky

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katebevan.com • 71 days ago

I am just a *teensy* bit tired of people posting "I asked AI a question and I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that it replied with garbage". Of course there's a very high chance it will reply with garbage: it's literally a making-shit-up-engine.

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kalaharihel.bsky.social•71 days ago

When I read 'AI', I mentally replace with 'Predictive Text'. That's how helpful I've found it

katebevan.com•71 days ago

that's a good way of thinking of it!

f1ddlest1cks.bsky.social•71 days ago

I’m a software engineer. Today I asked Perplexity for a string of 255 letter ‘a’s for a unit test I was “writing”. The unit test failed, because Perplexity gave me 238 ‘a’s . That’s not even a hard one!

katebevan.com•71 days ago

Everyone keeps forgetting that it has absolutely no clue what you've asked it nor what it's spitting out!

katebevan.com•71 days ago

anyway, I shouldn't rise to that "I asked AI a question and it replied with garbage" engagement-bait, and neither should any of us.