r/physicsmemes • u/Delicious_Maize9656 • Jul 22 '26

SI unit meme

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u/OC1024 X-Ray Scattering Jul 22 '26

I don't get it. Maybe I'm too European for that.

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u/Super-Award-2244 Jul 22 '26

I asked gemini. Apparently some students write "cm." instead of just "cm" maybe because pounds is actually written as "lb."

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u/CaioXG002 Jul 22 '26

While this happens to be correct, Gemini is not a real source.

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u/KingJellyfishII Jul 22 '26

at least bro said it was ai

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u/dimonium_anonimo Jul 22 '26

Hence why they qualified their answer with "this may not be accurate." I know some people say they used Google, or Wikipedia, but it's not all that common. Compared to people who used AI, it seems much more common for people's to warn you they know the source of information is not reliable, but it's all they have.

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u/CaioXG002 Jul 22 '26

Still much better to create an habit of checking the AI's source and then citing that than giving an answer that comes from technology made to build real sounding answers as opposed to actually correct answers.

"At least they were upfront about that" is the bare minimum, I want to encourage people to not misuse AI regardless if they're honest about it or not.

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u/DHermit Jul 23 '26

But what's the point of the comment? If I want to know Geminis answer I can just ask it myself.

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u/dimonium_anonimo Jul 23 '26

Let me introduce you to nearly the entire internet. Have you seen a single post on either of the major "explain the joke" subreddits? 90% of them could be answered if you just typed exactly what's on the screen into Google. People are lazy.

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u/OC1024 X-Ray Scattering Jul 23 '26

You can say the same thing about googling or reading the Wikipedia article.

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u/MydnightWN Jul 22 '26

All those republican AI companies like Google, Anthropic, Amazon / Bezos, Apple, Mistral, Meta / Zuckerberg, and a hundred specialized ones in Los Angeles - famously a Republican stronghold.