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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

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1257 points adrianh | 2 comments | 07 Jul 25 14:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.445s | source
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josefritzishere ◴[07 Jul 25 15:57 UTC] No.44491672[source]▶
That's a very constructive way of responding to AI being hot trash.
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nottorp ◴[07 Jul 25 16:02 UTC] No.44491716[source]▶
Well, the OP reviewed the "AI" output, deemed it useful and only then implemented it.

This is generally how you work with LLMs.

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1. AIPedant ◴[07 Jul 25 16:58 UTC] No.44492300[source]▶
I don't think they deemed it "useful":

  We’ve never supported ASCII tab; ChatGPT was outright lying to people. And making us look bad in the process, setting false expectations about our service.... We ended up deciding: what the heck, we might as well meet the market demand.

  [...] 

  My feelings on this are conflicted. I’m happy to add a tool that helps people. But I feel like our hand was forced in a weird way. Should we really be developing features in response to misinformation?
The feature seems pretty useless for practicing guitar since ASCII tablature usually doesn't include the rhythm: it is a bit shady to present the music as faithfully representing the tab, especially since only beginner guitarists would ask ChatGPT for help - they might not realize the rhythm is wrong. If ChatGPT didn't "force their hand" I doubt they would have included a misleading and useless feature.
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2. zzo38computer ◴[07 Jul 25 18:15 UTC] No.44493168[source]▶
ASCII tablature is not something I use and not something I know much about, but if you are correct then I think that might be a good reason to deliberately avoid such a feature.