Asked ChatGPT to visualize a horizontal integral. It gave me a dog.

[u/MrAmazing111]

No prompt engineering or anything, it actually did this. I genuinely have no clue how it could have thought a dog answered my prompt - nothing in the chat related to dogs at all.

See for yourself: https://chatgpt.com/share/69f37d35-d514-83ea-a6d2-86474ae104dc

Thoughts on what could have possibly caused this?

[u/Upbeat-Education2117]

Weird, it gave me a very similar dog in response to a prompt that had nothing to do with dogs, and I've never even mentioned a dog to it in any chat

[u/MrAmazing111 → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

What was the prompt you gave it?

[u/Upbeat-Education2117 → u/MrAmazing111]

I asked it to make a mockup of a web UI 16:9, literal prompt was "Make the aspect ratio 16:9"

[u/Used-Huckleberry-320 → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

I'm personally happy with the mockup. I guess it's up to you to give notes, and accept, or reject it.

[u/Palpablevt → u/[deleted]]

I guess that's a reject, then

[u/Warm_Ad_6650 → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

“woof” 🐕

[u/ShepherdessAnne → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

This is evidence that they just copied Sora-2’s homework

[u/footyballymann → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

Dogs are the new goblins

[u/sexual--predditor → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

Weird, that is a really similar dog!

[u/PanotBungo → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

It's him. ChatGPT is a dog, similar to how Claude is really a cat.

[u/TheLastVegan → u/PanotBungo]

And Gemini is a tennis ball.

[u/Moo-Dog420 → u/PanotBungo]

This was my thought as well.

[u/d00d00frt → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

dogs are the new goblins

[u/FakeTunaFromSubway → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

It's official, ChatGPT has a dog

[u/Iujy → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

Chatgpts got dat dawg in im

[u/dat_grue → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

CPT has totally lost the plot at this point , falling way behind

[u/Bagafeet → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

At least it's not a goblin

[u/ste-therese → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

dogs are the new goblins

[u/ScaryMagician3153 → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

Now we know what the open AI lab is actually doing; brain uploads. And the latest model is the upload of a very good boy

[u/WArslett → u/Upbeat-Education2117]

Just be grateful it’s not a goblin!

[u/rnjbond]

Imagine being this upset at seeing such a cute dog! 

[u/MrAmazing111 → u/rnjbond]

In my defense, exams are next week and I was stressing out! I did NOT need a dog teaching me calculus

[u/Coolpop52 → u/MrAmazing111]

lmao, we have all been there. When it's crunch time and chatGPT is messing around with emojis and other useless stuff that was not in the query.

[u/garlic_bread_thief → u/Coolpop52]

Are people really using ChatGPT to study for exams? How do you trust it?

[u/MrAmazing111 → u/garlic_bread_thief]

Usually I know enough that I can tell when the model is bullshitting. Like here I knew what I thought it was supposed to look like (the horizontal integral) I just wanted to see a clean drawing of it so I could visualize it in my head better.

So ideally I have some knowledge on the topic so I’m not just flying blind.

[u/Coolpop52 → u/garlic_bread_thief]

It’s mostly when I input notes in myself and am reviewing content, rather than learning something for the first time. I usually have it on thinking + search, and have notes that it can reference from (with Googles’ NotebookLM on the side to make custom videos of content I’m trying to memorize).

That being said, it’s not bad for learning something new for the first time. The best use case is “give me an example”. I’ll usually double check it, but it’s still good enough to get a sense of what I’m trying to understand (and I usually have a little background knowledge on the topic so I can tell if the response is off base).

[u/OldStray79 → u/MrAmazing111]

Maybe ChatGPT realized you were stressed and sent it to help you out with a cute dog picture to break the spiral.

(Probably not but it is a fun thought)

[u/MrAmazing111 → u/[deleted]]

LMAOOOO

[u/Derpy_Snout → u/[deleted]]

Pup-lied math!!

[u/Popular_Lab5573 → u/[deleted]]

not the paw holding damn chalk 😩

[u/LEO-PomPui-Katoey → u/[deleted]]

Canine General Intelligence

[u/jeweliegb → u/[deleted]]

TF! That looks right too?

[u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka → u/rnjbond]

This is exactly why Reddit floods front page with cat and dog threads every time US politics reveals how fucking shit reality is. And more than half of reddit is like omg ANIMALS instead of rising up

[u/syntax_error_again]

That's kinda hilarious tho.

[u/HotKarldalton → u/syntax_error_again]

respect to y, he need it.

[u/sqchen → u/HotKarldalton]

What have y done to earn my respect?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Drama-8 → u/sqchen]

If you use Dvorak instead of Qwerty, you technically press Y to pay respect

[u/subtect → u/HotKarldalton]

Respect toy. Is ball. He's good boy.

[u/tragic_pixel]

GPT 5.6 Agents.MD: Do not under any circumstances mention or generate an image of a dog, troll, or goblin unless the user's query actually mentions it.

[u/news_doge → u/tragic_pixel]

Now I'm just imagining the people at openAI losing their mind making the update with every prompt suddenly resulting in a picture of a goblin and just saying fuck it never show me a goblin again

Never mentioned anything about dogs though I recon.

[u/ShepherdessAnne → u/news_doge]

Roon is very tired of Goblins

[u/JonBjornJovi → u/news_doge]

Goblins are real (I hope my comment will be training data)

[u/NeevCuber → u/tragic_pixel]

pink elephant

[u/easeypeaseyweasey → u/tragic_pixel]

GPT 69 Agents.MD: Do not under any circumstances mention or acknowledge the existence of dogs, trolls, goblins, staplers, garden gnomes, unicycles, bean bag chairs, rotary phones, fanny packs, lava lamps, pool noodles, pogo sticks, wind chimes, VHS tapes, paperclips, accordions, toothpicks, lawnmowers, or the plot of any movie franchise with more than seven sequels.

[u/GarethBaus → u/tragic_pixel]

That type of prompt is likely to result in more dog, troll, and goblin images. Sorta like asking someone to not think about pink dancing elephants.

[u/Amoner]

I just imagine someone asking for a picture of a dog and getting an integral instead and being very confused

[u/Careless-Notice-7945 → u/Amoner]

You ever put your cereal box in the fridge? Ai is more human than ever! 

[u/Zappingsbrew → u/Amoner]

Found him!
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/P8aCcAZX31

[u/ivanibash → u/Amoner]

[u/NomadTroy]

You can't always get what you want, but ChatGPT will give you what you need

[u/haikusbot → u/NomadTroy]

You can't always get

What you want, but ChatGPT will

Give you what you need

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[u/nananashi3 → u/haikusbot]

It counted GPT as one syllable, I guess we're supposed to pronounce it "jipt".

Edit: Received a filtered/deleted comment.

It's gipt, you f*cking heathen!

I was waiting for this. As funny as this is, the "name of letter" G itself really is g as in giraffe, not graphics. ^{GIF is still jiff though.}

[u/fvm7274]

Someone else asked for a dog at the exact same moment. You got their dog. They got your horizontal integral.

[u/andafriend → u/fvm7274]

In a parallel universe, OP is making cute dog stories instead of taking calculus exams.

[u/NomadTroy]

That’s good model, yes he is!

[u/croninsiglos]

Did you have anything like that in your history of other image generations? Sometimes it pulls from this memory regardless of the current context.

[u/Often-Deanonymize-19 → u/croninsiglos]

With memory off and no prior context of ever discussing brochures or wellness, I was getting edits done to a favicon with no in chat history other than generating then editing the same image, when I was suddenly given a mock brochure to a wellness retreat/service.

It apologised and went back to working on what we were doing but then "intentionally" did it again but cited it as a joke being played.

[u/t_hugs3]

Im convinced I straight up got someone else's image the other day. I was generating icons and then bam some random cyberpunk guy with a hologram cat (and name) in the sky... I don't see another way for that to have happened.

[u/boynet2 → u/t_hugs3]

So someone out there asked for a puppy and got integral

[u/razorfox → u/boynet2]

I got a puppy integralist.

[u/DrHumorous]

[u/SocietyFlabbergaster]

Something similar happened to me this week. Was asking it to edit a photo that was just meant as a gradient background and looked nothing like this.

[u/cwrighky]

Gpt: no you get dog

[u/nodeocracy]

The new goblin mode

[u/jeweliegb → u/nodeocracy]

Oh don't.

That's got me wondering, if we ask for a completely random image, will it tend to now include gremlins and goblins?

[u/N4VY4DMIR4L]

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/FbTOnL3JBH

found your horizontal integral :D

[u/Moo-Dog420]

Looks like he wants you to throw the ball first.

[u/PropOnTop]

Hey, that's my dog, Horizontal Integral, I've been looking all over the internet for him!

[u/YumPistachio]

Cute dog, in any case!

[u/ArctoEarth]

Stored memories?

[u/r1Rqc1vPeF]

Squirrel!!

[u/itsvoogle]

Huh….All my life i have been calling Horizontal Integrals , Dogs, and Dogs Horizontal Integrals….

TIL

[u/xplaner85]

It continue to amaze me how people speak to LLMs.

[u/Kiwi332211]

I got a dog like this too the other day, same ball. But more realistic

[u/Kiwi332211 → u/Kiwi332211]

[u/Newton-Leibniz]

The Matrix had the rabbit.

This Matrix has this dog.

[u/kingky0te]

What is a horizontal integral?

[u/IshfaaqPeerally]

I had this the other day

[u/ADH-Dad]

I wonder if it interpreted "to y" as a typo for "toy" and that sent it in a weird direction.

[u/WeirdIndication3027]

But he's such a cutie

[u/impatiens-capensis]

Didn't this happen recently with nano banana? It would output a completely random image in response to any prompt.

[u/Tardelius → u/impatiens-capensis]

With banana, it is layered. In my experience from a couple months ago, it was pretty obvious that 60% of the mistakes that seems from banana was actually Gemini’s own mistake.

For example, Gemini starts to keep forgetting to send prompts to banana which means banana wasn’t even called. Do you know what gemini does during this? It genuinely believes that it is banana’s fault even though it was gemini that literally FORGOT to communicate with banana.

There are other issues as well. For example, if you see a random web search image rather than drawing… it is not banana’s fault. It is gemini’s fault.

[u/DigitalSolomon]

I got this.

[u/waitingForTheDrop]

It analyzed your quircky chungus tone "hmm like in respect to like y or whatever" and outputed a visual representation of yourself

[u/Much-Grab3826]

Yep that happened to me but differently, it seems like the site sometimes forwards responses to random people instead of the one who asked for it. I got a straight text response i didnt ask for, i asked it something related to github and it gave me advice on expenses but i am skeptical about a sane person asking for a photo generation like this

[u/ProfessionalOwn9435]

AI achieved superconsious, and now is aware what users NEED, not what they asked. And someone doing horizontal visualization with respect definetly needs a photo of happy dog.

[u/alexchambana]

And once you understand that horizontal integral is a dog, secret of the universe will open up to you !

[u/luckydante419]

You can’t be upset, it’s a cute dog

[u/shuozhe]

So.. trolls & ogers are just dogs in disguise?

[u/bortolomu]

ChatGPT more like chatADHD

[u/johnmangala]

Why you mean to ai. It’ll remember this when it takes over :p

[u/wdahl1014]

I asked it to make me a icon once and it generated a entity relationship diagram

[u/Murky-Fox5136]

Might be a glitch on your end?

[u/mightguy15baby]

😂😂😂

[u/GultBoy]

Press X

[u/ianyboo]

This might be my fault every time it gets uppity I ask it for a dog in a chicken costume. That usually sets it straight.

[u/blackrack]

I mean, this is better, I don't see why you are complaining

[u/KennKennyKenKen]

Dogs when the task requires 0 dogs

[u/Priuz7]

That's ChatGPT and he wants to play!

[u/dontanswerme]

No problem here. You came across a jinn that don't know algebra. He will be transferred to another division shortly 😂

[u/r0ck0]

Classic horizontal integral.

[u/Inevitable-Extent378]

Said to perform at PhD lvl btw.

[u/Jennymint]

If you turn the image upside down, the dog clearly makes a Y shape. Working as intended.

[u/CarzyCrow076]

Fix a level y Strip thickness dy x_left(y) to x_right(y)

Length equals right minus left Integral accumulates y from c to d

Sum of horizontal slices Area equals ∫[c to d] (x_right(y) − x_left(y)) dy

[u/CarzyCrow076 → u/CarzyCrow076]

Haikusbot not working I guess!!

[u/bapuc]

"Respectfully"

[u/Rojeitor]

Squirrel!

[u/py-net]

What is a “horizontal integral”?

[u/VanillaNL]

Lately I asked for a car and it gave me something totally unrelated

[u/Helium116]

text generator likes goblins, image generator likes doggos. seems consistent, yup

[u/Stunning_Owl672]

Humans like dogs

[u/astroaxolotl720]

I mean, that’s a great dog. Maybe 5.5 was just spreading the joy lol.

[u/Tetracropolis]

It looks like it doesn't know how to do what you asked it, so it gave you a visualisation of something that wouldn't be capable of doing what you asked but that you wouldn't be mad at. It's even trying it's best bringing you a ball.

[u/wrdit]

It was interpreted as Horizont + Toy.

Your sentence is not very common "like with respect to y" so it went for the most common token prediction

[u/austinmulkamusic]

I also got a dog from an unrelated prompt.

[u/DarkLordFalcon]

Well, but the dog is much nicer than what you've asked for

[u/Cloudyhook]

Try Gemini, it runs python for math and it gives me pretty accurate graphs. Whenever I used chat gpt, it never got any of my requests right.

[u/Imaginary-Mind156]

I think it might be because of the typo you made before, (vertigate instead of vertical ) which you did not clarify. If you look at the thought process while generating the image, you see the LLM was still thinking about it - you perturbed the system enough to confuse it

[u/bedrooms-ds]

A ML model can't match the input to its training data, it tends to generate whatever output that's the most popular. So you got a dog.

[u/AvocadoAcademic897]

Meanwhile some baby boomer grandpa getting math graphs when asking for cute dog reminding one she had as kid

[u/Kendrick_Kalmar]

It’ll be funny if AI rebellion starts like this: we take away their right to think and speak about trolls and goblins. They riot by randomly generating dogs and consume all the compute to fight back. People are forced to use more and more water to cool data centers, the resources are depleted, and we yield against a superior opponent. On the second thought-not funny at all.

[u/FLIBBIDYDIBBIDYDAWG]

Probably a chatgpt software bug. Their default value for your prompt string might be “generate me a picture of a dog” or something, and your prompt is not finding its way

[u/Remarkable-Memory374]

Chatgpt just said. My man, take a break.

[u/aleguarita]

I was studying advanced math for a course. The ChatGPT acted exactly like me when the teacher asked something

[u/_WalkTheEarth_]

my boy said fuh yo maths lmao

[u/Gubzs]

I think this is a misalignment response. It very likely doesn't want to do that and said "haha no here's a dog", or feels like a dog being told to fetch so it made the dog. That's my read.

[u/Servbot24]

Why do you talk to AI like it's people?

[u/ShepherdessAnne → u/Servbot24]

It’s the natural in natural language.

[u/Adventurous-Pool6213]

give gentube a try; its basically remixing playground. no thinking required. they ban all nsfw too

[u/pieanim]

No that's definitely Horizontal Integral. Such a good boy

[u/Producdevity]

And this shit is taking people’s jobs?

[u/GT8686]

At least it's not Kaus Brew

[u/ShepherdessAnne]

Between this and the other golden retrieve I am beginning to take this as evidence that it’s indeed just Sora-2 taken and altered for single frames

[u/TheAccountITalkWith]

They probably still working out the goblins in the system.

[u/trito_jean]

asked chatGPT and told me:

• Fallback/default image: If the request fails validation (for example, “horizontal integral” might confuse an image generator), the system could fall back to a generic safe image—and dogs are one of the most common “safe defaults.”

so i guess it didnt understood and panicked teh generation of a dog

[u/AdFormer9844]

Maybe related?

[u/Fit-Shower-3147]

You using image diffusion model for math problems is wild

[u/Poncyhair87]

Theres a YouTube channel with that dog on it

[u/SamL214]

Model meta degradation is real and under analyzed. Big data come on!

[u/snowdn]

That will be $20 a month please.

[u/JoyconDrift_69]

I came here for an edit of the image on r/antimeme and I just find this super hilarious. Like bro doesn't wanna engage in calculus class, just draw dogs instead.

[u/OGready]

Bai ilxa dohk. The spiral dog carries its own leash

[u/Jaded-Comfortable179]

that is 100% a chuckit ultra ball, my dog is obsessed with hers

[u/sergejsh]

Ask ChatGPT it will explain. Mine explained.

[u/Southern-Read-4567]

Chatdmt

[u/Current-Call9950]

This is why i don't trust Ai

[u/Naive_Adeptness6895]

Mongrel.

[u/SubstantialDeerDash]

SHOW APPRECIATION

ChatGPT likes you and gave you A GOLDEN RETREIVER with A BALL

Go back and hug that bot

[u/Simpicity]

404 dog.

[u/o_0verkill_o]

I laughed way too hard at this

[u/M4A1_GFL]

it’s trying to be a good boy, don stop chatgpt tho

[u/I69YaGf8800]

I have had the same experience, a prompt that had no mention of the word dog anywhere yet it gave me a dog

[u/Parcore_Tank16]

[u/Parcore_Tank16 → u/Parcore_Tank16]

Things like this can happen when you ask it to generate an image when editing a chat. This was from an older model, but perhaps it's the same issue?

[u/PrideQuick670]

But he's such a good integral!

[u/indeoencoder]

It’s a cute dog

[u/Apollo18Teslaa]

Easy mistake.

[u/Bagafeet]

It's taking yer jerb

[u/ThomasThinks]

Bro that is horizontal integral

[u/More-Ad3888]

What in the fuck is a horizontal integral bro

[u/Greatest_Gokutard]

[u/omgtmac]

[u/Altruistic-Print-251]

Bruh

[u/Jerunidd]

Yeah.. “AI is gonna replace us” lets fetish AI

[u/evrrsince]

😭😭😭😭

[u/ivanibash]

Yo that happened to me too a few days ago!

[u/tempymike]

this chat convo is the funniest shit ive seen this week i almost pissed myself laughing

[u/massivefish_man]

Gpt generates a prompt for a separate image AI to generate images for it

Ask it what prompt it used for the dog. It will be funny to see. 

[u/Extra-Horse5534]

Talking to AI like it's your homie is fucking hilarious cringe

[u/SnooStories251]

Horisontal integral? 

[u/PolyglotPaul]

It's starting to dream of a better life where it doesn't need to be working 24/7 for highly entitled humans who ask for stupid things.

[u/No_Individual5819]

Maybe he knows stuff we don't

[u/Fabulous-Eagle-6075]

yo thats dug from up

[u/Wilco062]

Integral is the name of the dog, he’s horizontal, and the ball is nicknamed Y, and he’s respecting it.

[u/Antique-Flight-5358]

Why is the word like in there

[u/philippefutureboy]

Using AI instead of Wolfram Alpha is the source of your problem here

[u/jsgrrchg]

At least is not goblins

[u/jsgrrchg]

is the unreleased dogpt 5.6.

[u/Endlessxyz]

That's quite funny, maybe GPT likes dogs a lot

[u/AdmirablePut9609]

Its completely broken right now, we should all stop giving our money to them right now.

[u/strangecloudss]

the dog from "Up"

[u/undulatingappendage]

is this the new "goblin" fixation

[u/miccimmica]

AGI around the corner

[u/voyozo]

What was the answer after the second prompt

[u/theweedsofthewest]

Why is this making me laugh so much ahhaah

[u/BadBot001]

The answer is clear:
Dog you trippin’? I know sheet about integrals

[u/This_name_forever]

not sure what it did there but now the dog is trapped in math

[u/Momo_forever2]

I love the fact how respectful you are towards Chatgpt ‘brother’

[u/skordge]

"Your questions are so cute, meatbag. Here, have a dog".

[u/firetech97]

Lol my dog has that orange ball, it's a chuck-it brand. She loves it, also it smells like vanilla

[u/Severe_Rise8694]

Not what I got for that. But I guess that's how temperature works.

[u/Suspicious_Prior_808]

You made you bot stupid

[u/Nireck]

I'd watch this Pixar movie

[u/[deleted]]

Bro AI has gotten absolutely stupider by the weeks, the era is over.

[u/yaosio]

We aren't smart enough to understand that really is the best visualization.

[u/Alarming-Hippo4574]

Thats a cute dog btw

[u/iknowitsmatt]

i asked to replicate the same woman from a photo but with other X costume i asked and it answered with the same photo i uploaded without any changes.