AI fails

[Pblakeney]

They've left in the summary of what the AI did to the input. You're not supposed to do that, as it gives the game away that you were too lazy to do it yourself. I guess that their prompt was along the lines of "Please tabulate these results", and they copied and pasted everything rather than just the table.

Oh. I tend to speed read through uninteresting parts to get to the meat of the post/article.
Summed up as, I don’t pay attention. Meh.

 

[briantrumpet]

Oh. I tend to speed read through uninteresting parts to get to the meat of the post/article.
Summed up as, I don’t pay attention. Meh.

We got there in the end, young Blakers. Do try harder next term.

 

[Pross]

I used Copilot to re-write my CV for a bid submission the other day. I fed it my CV and the brief for the project and it actually did a really decent job. I was paranoid on the proof reading to avoid the sort of thing above and it embellished some of my skills a bit too much (which I amended) but it was far more succinct than what I had written and really highlighted the critical elements. I wish I’d used it last year when applying for jobs to tailor the CV to the job description.

 

[briantrumpet]

"New study shows that asking other pupils to go to the library for you, and to find, read and summarise relevant sources for you, reduces your comprehension of subjects compared with doing the work yourself."

 

[C R]

"New study shows that asking other pupils to go to the library for you, and to find, read and summarise relevant sources for you, reduces your comprehension of subjects compared with doing the work yourself."

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Somewhat frightening that the poster wrote freighting, is that even a word?

 

[Poacher]

Somewhat frightening that the poster wrote freighting, is that even a word?

Frightening?

 

[C R]

Frightening?

Sorry I was being tongue in cheek. I expect that's what the poster meant, but failed to notice the mistake.

 

[C R]

As reported in road cc today
https://road.cc/news/cycling-live-blog-22-june-2026

 

[AndyRM]

AI accuracy...

 

[briantrumpet]

Phew, I'm glad Gemini was on hand to summarise this email

 

[Mr Celine]

I'm starting to think that too many people who use AI for easy tasks are either too lazy, too unskilled, or too unobservant to be trusted to use it.

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And yes, it's still there. In a newspaper.

https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/26203043.whipman-week-results-bogie-wheelbarrow-races/

That's my local rag.

Similar cock ups happened pre AI days. These local festivals have the same traditional events every year, so reports on them could be written in advance, or find a previous year's version with the same weather and just change the names. The other local rag got it spectacularly wrong with a report on the Innerleithen festival. They'd written the article in advance and left spaces for photographs with dummy captions. Someone forgot to change the dummy captions before it went to print...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3920273.stm

Link has the caption that appears to have caused most offence but ISTR another one was 'drunk locals with bad teeth'

 

[Ian H]

Somewhat frightening that the poster wrote freighting, is that even a word?

Related to the Lincs dialect word 'frit' as famously used by Thatcher.

 

[briantrumpet]

Haha. AI logos, and what they supposedly resemble.

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

(The Vonnegut is apparently from his 'Breakfast of Champions)

 

[AndyRM]

The joy of AI logos.

Written by AI.

No f*cking wonder the creative industry is an absolute disaster space.