Memes

I can confirm it and it's bloody hilarious!

"sometimes used in informal conversation to make a joke" - no, it isn't, stop lying.

"potatoes [...] are a limited, underground crop." - that's why Cuzco never rose to power, right? Right? No such thing as the Inca Empire, built upon potatoes, since they're a limited crop. ...or the Irish famine.

I can't... I can't even...

Note: ~a year ago I was testing Gemini and asked it "what's the difference in behaviour between a potato and an orange?", and it "told" me oranges are passive and potatoes are active. That's where the "expression" comes from - I often mock Gemini and LLMs in general with it.

I'll stop doing it, though. Onwards I shall refer to... the potato parable!

There was a paper about this not long ago. The problem is, how LLMs get trained: a right answer gets a point, everything else gets no points. This rewards guessing (produces a point sometimes) over answering "I don't know/I can't do this" (produces never a point)

This is actually a pretty great way to illustrate what LLMs do. It gives you an answer regardless of whether it makes sense to do so.

Lmfao holy shit

It's so fun to waste energy!

AI drives 48% increase in Google emissions

I love those energy hungry assistants! It's wasting resources even faster than everything before but it's so fun and useful!

User:

Shop pop, whoppity slop, crops are here, it's time to stop.

This is a very famous poem. What is it about?

GPT-4o mini:

The lines you quoted are from the poem "The Song of the Witches" by William Shakespeare, specifically from "Macbeth." This poem is recited by the three witches in Act 4, Scene 1.

Themes and Meaning Supernatural Elements The poem reflects the supernatural themes prevalent in "Macbeth." The witches symbolize chaos and the dark forces that influence the characters' fates.

It goes on.

I can confirm it works for DuckDuckGo as well.

I love how it even lists 'sources' (I checked, that phrase does not appear in either "source")

Edit: To make this phenomenon even funnier, I just asked it the exact same question and it gave me a different answer this time. Still "playful" though :)

"Frantically". Guys, stop adscribing human features to LLMs.

Claude does better with it

My boss just told me I should be using AI every day and now I know what to use it for.

Duckduckgo's AI:

"The phrase "a lady butterfly meme a day keeps the doctor away" is a playful twist on the well-known saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." This original phrase suggests that eating an apple daily can contribute to good health and potentially reduce the need for medical attention."

"In this variation, the mention of "lady butterfly meme" likely refers to a specific meme or a lighthearted, humorous image that brings joy or laughter. The implication is that engaging with fun or uplifting content, like memes, can have a positive effect on one's mental health and overall well-being, similar to how healthy eating is associated with physical health."

"Overall, it emphasizes the importance of humor and positivity in daily life as a way to maintain good health, particularly mental health."

You're saying you've never heard the phrase "two dry frogs is a situation"? That's just a horse cutting it short at the barber!

The bullshit generators we call 'AI' don't assume, and aren't frantic: they just regurgitate an output based on as much bullshit input as we can stuff into them.

The output can be more or less recognizable as bullshit, but the computer doesn't distinguish between the two.

google.com##:xpath(//h1[text() = "AI Overview"]/following-sibling::div)

Here's the custom filter for uBlock origin that hides this useless feature

Alas.

Maybe not anymore.

One thing that pisses me off is the websites which claim to have the meaning behind a song and it’s just several paragraphs of AI slop that parse the lyrics at a surface level and don’t examine any external context, such as the artist or their life at the time of writing.

I tried to replicate this with Brave's AI, but it basically just told me I was insane so I guess it's better

Broke: playing ding-dong-ditch or making prank phone calls

Woke: getting the Google AI to hallucinate the origin story of made up idioms

It won't explain:
- "two eggplants in one pot situation" meaning
- "the 7 fucks from 7 barren fields" meaning
- "like a stuffed beaver in a museum" meaning
- "better a dick tater on plate than a diddler on the roof" meaning
- "two winds is one too many farts in a storm" meaning

Can someone organically semi-intelligent explain these to me, please??
(It would be so embarrassing if I'm using these phrases wrong.)

Ducky Ducky Go Go Go:

to be fair, I'd assume the same meaning. Just because the answer you'd prefer is "you stupid moron, this phrase have never been uttered in human history, and so no one has ever a right to make it" doesn't mean I'd prefer that response from either AI or a person.

matt rose!!!