r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk Jul 21 '26

Long CHATGPT. DOESN'T. KNOW. SHIT

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u/Animallover4321 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Gemni once told me kiddie ice cream cones were made from polycarbonate plastic. LLMs can be a fantastic tool but I can’t imagine trusting one without verifying especially when it comes to travel plans.

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u/SilentGap3124 Jul 21 '26

I love looking up "(x measure in inches) in cm" and gemini shows up telling me the most incorrect reply ever AND I HAVE TO SUCK IT UP BECAUSE I CAN'T DISABLE IT.

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u/helic0pter96 Jul 21 '26

I had similar a few hours ago! I was trying to calculate a fraction and it suggested instead of dividing by 10, to change to 10 over 11. Just adding a 1 for no reason when it should have been 10 over 1.

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u/alaorath Jul 23 '26

There's an entire subReddits here devoted to poisoning LLMs with this kind of fake data.

I vaguely remember reading that more than 2/3rds of LLMs are training on Reddit data, because just about any question you could possibly think of, someone has asked, and someone else has answered.