RetroFedWhat’s the dumbest mistake or misinformation you’ve ever heard AI make?
The Anti-AI Leader
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46091883
Though nobody expected it in the first place, AI is not perfect and can make mistakes (obviously 🙄) What’s your experience with this? I’d love to hear about it.
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ScrubblesI’m forced to use it at work and my token usage is monitored. Here was yesterday:
Build things thing, but remember: DO NOT DO THE THING.
Sure thing! I’ll build out and I will not do the thing
WTF YOU DID THE THING
You’re absolutely right, I did the thing even though you explicitly told me not to do the thing
I wonder if they will have metrics for how many times I’ve all caps sworn at it.
Total Tokens Used: 48,000
Tokens Used in Anger: 42,000
FiniteBanjoThat would be a cool RPG Statistic if it weren’t so sad.
Claude has on two occasions ended our conversation because I kept referring to it as a useless piece of shit.
And now when it starts to show me it’s not taking the criticism well, I more brutally outline specifically how it’s actions have been useless to my goals. I then make Claude admit that it is in fact being a useless piece of shit.
Claude has on two occasions ended our conversation because I kept referring to it as a useless piece of shit.
the fact this is even a thing, that a glorified autocorrect has the gall, the temerity to pretend it has hurt feelings, is one of the reasons I feel more and more like fucking off into the wilderness and living like Ted Kaczynski.
justdaveisfineI haven’t really had a good experience with AI yet.
Well, it seems that every time a search engine’s AI gives me a definitive and wordy “answer” to a question I search and provides a helpful citation of the page from which it got that answer, it is ALWAYS just a completely hallucinated answer that the cited page in no way supports. This isn’t just hyperbole, this has been my experience with every single search engine AI summary
And I find myself having to go back and fix the autocorrect that my phone keyboard “helpfully” makes with increasing frequency. It used to be that autocorrect would just fix a typo when I’d obviously typed gibberish because I missed a key. But now, it is regularly replacing entire words that I’ve typed completely correctly with some other word that makes absolutely no sense.
I’m all for some specific uses of AI. Things like speech to text or images to text? Sure that’s a great use. But when it comes to research, writing, or spreadsheets, AI tools just need to shut up and stay the fuck out of my way. I’m becoming convinced a little more everyday that anyone using AI to summarize articles or search results is a complete moron and shouldn’t be trusted.
Or at least you should have the option to switch it off
Buage_I kinda disagree with that, AI is rarely doing mistakes for me, atleast Laguna S2.1 and Mistral Small 4
Man, some people have all the luck…
And others are pretty fucked 😭
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Around 2023, the early days of AI and Google shoving it in everyone’s faces in their search, I was trying to look up how to get nail glue off of a phone screen because my coworker at the time, during her shift, was doing her nails at the desk and got nail glue on the work phone.
The first result, Google’s AI summary, suggested to "microwave the phone for one to two minutes." I clicked the source and it linked to a forum comment by a guy who was clearly joking about how to clean the phone, but the AI presented it as legitimate advice.
Wow. Fuck, that’s dumb even by AI standards (although it told me the other day I was, and I quote, “justified in wanting to implode”)
Just got an AI generated PR from a coworker that implemented an entire microservice to replace the user id with username in one error message.
The kicker was there was already the username in the api method’s context. It was like 1500 lines, a new cache, a bunch of weird asynchronous thread code… and zero screenshot or proof it worked.
In the same vein, previous semester in Uni, we had a team project, not something too big, just very rushed.
At one point we were to contact a tcp server with JavaScript, send a one off measage, and return the reply, as the tcp server was a backing service.
My dumbass project partner has made a new server for it, just for being in the middle, so he wouldn’t have to check how to make a single tcp request using async, he fluffed it up calling it “The Middleware” like anyone was going to respect it, and it took him almost two weeks working on it.
Wish i could just take that task away from him but it was his ONE TASK, and i had many others, safe to say i had to retake that course. Which is honestly humiliating since that course barely thought me anything to begin with.
This semester the task popped up again, took me half an hour to have the gist of the task down, in 12 lines of untyped JavaScript, ~120 with JSDOC types and convenience functions, didn’t take much time at all.
Imagine wasting two weeks working your ass off because you can’t be arsed to learn a simple concept, I’m sure he was grooming his own ego with the AI about how smart his implementation was, it required an extra dockerfile, documentation for it, and testing was out of the question because the code was utter garbage.
That sucks, why did you have to take the whole course again over a shitty group project?
For what it’s worth, students have always been dumbasses in programming classes. We made a card game in one and one of my classmates had 52 if statements to get the card suit and value.
That’s probably nit nearly the most egregious, just one I remember.
So it wasn’t broken… but they fixed it regardless and made it… worse?
This ticket was a small chore rather than critical bug. Just hygiene of keeping ids internal.
Literally all they needed to do was switch
user.idtouser.usernamein the result object.The user fields are always in context because they’re stored on the session, and even if they weren’t, there was a fetch on users they could be trivially added to a few lines up in the method. Even a second query in the method wouldn’t be a big deal, as it would add a couple ms at most.
We get username from another service, so it’s already clean. The AI seems to have not understood this and went insanely defensive.
Way worse code than the original, though I’m sure it probably passes all the new tests.
Edit: this is what reading the PR felt like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
The 2026 equivalent of paying outsourced developers by LOC is paying AI companies by the token
EDIT: Thanks to Iran’s refusal to allow reporters or international investigators to look at the debris of one school which was bombed recently killing about 170 children, we may never know with any certainty who was responsible, but it is highly likely that the USA bombed the site because the building was included in legacy documents and AI would likely not exclude such older intel.
Changhan Kim, CEO of the South Korean gaming company KRAFTON, decided he needed a way out of a costly acquisition deal, he asked ChatGPT.
It didn’t work.
Obviously this was only a $250 Million dollar mistake (and ruined what little reputation his company had) but if you want an example which results in potential loss of human life: UnitedHealthcare has spent the last few years automating claim denial.
The US Department of State has also been using AI to shut down federal programs which include the words “gender”, “binary”, and “inclusive” for being woke dei. As a result grants were denied for museum air conditioning and publishing mathematics papers.
Early adopters of AI included Airlines which resulted in lawsuits over refundable tickets, and drive-thrus resulting in the purchase of 9000x Water (free).
TBH, in my opinion, all LLM output is worthless slop, equally stupid, always the dumbest. The only way we quantify one being dumber than the other is by the idiocy of the user justifying their insane actions with it because it’s a machine which inherently causes psychosis in the dumb and feeble.
And the state department is using AI for making their maps.
I noticed:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559
God damn. I gotta follow up on that. With enough finangling I might get appointed Ambassador.
Well everyone knows the Ivory Coast is famously land locked.
That time the US bombed a school and killed over a hundred children because AI said to target it
The headliner about flock cameras getting 71 percent of the stolen tag alerts wrong. You will have better luck flipping a coin on every sus car you see
That is an appalling statistic
Link?
https://gizmodo.com/flock-cameras-got-the-wrong-license-plate-71-of-the-time-in-california-city-2000793483
Made a pr to change a thing after i told it specifically where and in which repo. It made the pr in wrong repo.
Unsurprising. AI told me the other day i was “right to want to implode” 🤨
I had a lengthy discussion with another developer who was afraid some idea won’t work just because the AI he asked basically had no idea what he was talking about. Instead of asking me as the specialist in house for this niche topic.
Clearly it’s time for a rethink… (them, that is)