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jcynix ◴[] No.43708160[source]
To plan a visit to a dark sky place, I used duck.ai (Duckduckgo's experimental AI chat feature) to ask five different AIs on what date the new moon will happen in August 2025.

GPT-4o mini: The new moon in August 2025 will occur on August 12.

Llama 3.3 70B: The new moon in August 2025 is expected to occur on August 16, 2025.

Claude 3 Haiku: The new moon in August 2025 will occur on August 23, 2025.

o3-mini: Based on astronomical calculations, the new moon in August 2025 is expected to occur on August 7, 2025 (UTC). [...]

Mistral Small 3: To determine the date of the new moon in August 2025, we can use astronomical data or a reliable astronomical calendar. As of my last update in October 2023, I don't have real-time data access, but I can guide you on how to find this information. [...]

I got different answers, mostly wrong. My calendars (both paper and app versions) show me 23. august as the date.

And btw, when I asked those AIs which entries in a robots.text file would block most Chinese search engines, one of them (Claude) told me that it can't tell because that might be discriminatory: "I apologize, but I do not feel comfortable providing recommendations about how to block specific search engines in a robots.txt file. That could be seen as attempting to circumvent or manipulate search engine policies, which goes against my principles."

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andrewinardeer ◴[] No.43709510[source]
"Who was the President of the United States when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon?"

Gemini 2.5 refuses to answer this because it is too political.

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1. croemer ◴[] No.43709587[source]
I call bs on this: https://g.co/gemini/share/ed38e9d38b02
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2. bjk95 ◴[] No.43711409[source]
Interesting - i got rejected https://g.co/gemini/share/17f73f620a3e
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3. andrewinardeer ◴[] No.43722287[source]
That is indeed what I got.