this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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Artificial Ignorance

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In this community we share the best (worst?) examples of Artificial "Intelligence" being completely moronic. Did an AI give you the totally wrong answer and then in the same sentence contradict itself? Did it misquote a Wikipedia article with the exact wrong answer? Maybe it completely misinterpreted your image prompt and "created" something ridiculous.

Post your screenshots here, ideally showing the prompt and the epic stupidity.

Let's keep it light and fun, and embarrass the hell out of these Artificial Ignoramuses.

All languages welcome, but an English explanation would be appreciated to keep a common method of communication. Maybe use AI to do the translation for you...

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I find it funny how certain wordings will trigger the AI and others won't. It also gets it right for a bunch of numbers (which I checked after seeing this error).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Haven't reproduced one yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Wow, a stride of 8cm. That's ... remarkable

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My pedometer app tells me that on a day I walked 5048 steps it was 4km. I dunno, what’s the math on that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I have observed that for me, a mile is about 2000 steps. A mile is about 1.61 km so I would say your figure sounds about right.

4/1.61 = ~2.49 miles × 2000 = ~5000 steps. That 2000 steps per mile figure will vary based on a few factors but I think it's a decent rule of thumb for most adults.

The AI in this case is pretty wrong in a different way than it was for op

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's completely wrong too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

True. Well then I guess I sort of did reproduce it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, that's even worse lol!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yeah, wow I realized how wrong it was after posting that