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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 was watching a video on orangutans and it made me wonder how well google would handle this question.

Didn't get it quite right... But maybe it's a subtle dig?

Note: I accidentally scrolled the "AI Overview" notation off before taking the first screenshot, but it is there:

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[–] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

this is a nothing. the list it produces first is not exhaustive. there are no contradictions or falsehoods here, and what you observed in this post is barely ambiguous. humans may be categorized among the great apes, but are rarely referred to as such except in relation to the other great apes. Otherwise we tend to be extremely chauvanist and just call ourselves humans.

this is like "what are animals"

and it produces a list of birds and reptiles and fish and mammals but doesnt include humans. and then you ask "are humans always considered animals" and post a gottem.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It specifically says "great apes are closely related to humans".

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 7 hours ago

Great apes are closely related to humans BECAUSE humans are great apes. That idea is offensive to many religious zealots, so it's not a fact often brought up in any conversation unless specifically prompted. This isn't a logical fallacy you've uncovered, just a cultural bias and stigma. Of course a language model will also avoid the topic unless specifically prompted because it's trained on people and articles that ALL do the very same philosophical dance and mental gymnastics to avoid inciting the ignorant zealots.

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