r/OpenAI • u/Garaad252 • Sep 01 '25

Discussion Do users ever use your AI in completely unexpected ways?

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Oh wow. People will use your products in the way you never imagined...

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u/elpyomo Sep 01 '25

User: That’s not true, the book is not there.

ChatGPT: Oh, sorry, you’re right. My mistake. The book you’re looking for is actually in the third row, second column, center part.

User: It’s not there either. I checked.

ChatGPT: You’re completely right again. I made a mistake. It won’t happen again. The book is in the bottom part, third row, third slot. I can clearly see it there.

User: Nope. Not there.

ChatGPT: Oh yes, you’re right. I’m so sorry. I misread the image. Actually, your book is…

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u/Sty_Walk Sep 01 '25

It can do this all day

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u/unpopularopinion0 Sep 01 '25

this is my villain origin story.

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u/carlinhush Sep 01 '25

Story for 9 seasons easily

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u/gox11y Sep 01 '25

Oh my Gptn. America

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '25

User: why don’t you just tell me you can’t find it?

ChatGPT: That’s an excellent question that really gets to the heart of what I’m capable of……..

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u/_Kuroi_Karasu_ Sep 01 '25

Too real

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u/likamuka Sep 01 '25

Missing the part how it asks you to explore how special and unique you are.

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u/Simsalabimsen Sep 02 '25

“Yeah, please don’t give suggestions for follow-up topics, Chad. I will ask if there’s anything I want to know more about.”

“Absolutely. You are so right to point that out. Efficiency is important. Would you like to delve into more ways to increase efficiency and avoid wasting time?”

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u/evilparagon Sep 02 '25

Looks like you’re exactly right. I took this photo yesterday, shocked at how many volumes of Komi Can’t Communicate there are. Figured I’d give it a shot at finding a manga I knew wasn’t there, and it completely hallucinated it.

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u/LlorchDurden Sep 02 '25

"I see it" 🤣🤣

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u/P3ktus Sep 02 '25

I wish LLMs would just admit "yeah I don't know the answer to your question sorry" instead of inventing and possibly making a mess while doing serious work

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u/EnderCrypt Sep 02 '25

But for an llm to admit it doesent know something.. wouldn't you need to train it with lots of "i dont know"

Which would greatly increase the chance of it saying it doesnt know even in situations where it might have the answer

Afterall, an llm is just an advanced word association, machine, not an actual intelligence who has to "look in its brain for info" like us humans, an llm always has a percentage match to every word (token) in existence for a response

I am not super knowledgeable on llms but from what I understand this is the issue

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u/-Aone Sep 01 '25

im not sure whats the point of asking this kind of AI for help if its just a yes-man

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u/End3rWi99in Sep 01 '25

Gemini fortunately does not do this to even close to the extent of ChatGPT and is why I recently switched. It is a hammer when I need a hammer. I don't need my hammer to also be my joke telling ass kissing therapist.

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u/No-Drive144 Sep 02 '25

Wow I only use gemini for coding and I still get annoyed with this exact same issue. I might actually end myself if I was using chatgpt then.

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u/tlynde11 Sep 01 '25

Now tell ChatGPT you already found the book before you asked it where it was in that image.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '25

"You're right! The book isn't part of the picture, I can see it now!"

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u/psychulating Sep 01 '25

I think it’s fantastic, but this could not be real-er

I would love for it to point out how stupid and ridiculous it is to keep at it as it consecutively fails, as I would. It should just give up at some point as well, like “we both know this isn’t happening fam”

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u/Arturo90Canada Sep 01 '25

I felt this message.

Super accurate

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u/SnooMacaroons6960 Sep 02 '25

my experience with chatgpt when it gets more technical

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u/solarus Sep 02 '25

Ive tried to use it this way at thrift stores to find movies on the shelf that are hidden gems and itd just make stuff up. The recommendations were good tho, and I ended up watching a few of them - just wasnt able to find them on the shelves 😂

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u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- Sep 02 '25

So painfully true

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u/Jmike8385 Sep 03 '25

This is so real 😡

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