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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: 0.003s | source
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gortok ◴[07 Jul 25 23:37 UTC] No.44495659[source]▶
I think folks have taken the wrong lesson from this.

It’s not that they added a new feature because there was demand.

They added a new feature because technology hallucinated a feature that didn’t exist.

The savior of tech, generative AI, was telling folks a feature existed that didn’t exist.

That’s what the headline is, and in a sane world the folks that run ChatGPT would be falling over themselves to be sure it didn’t happen again, because next time it might not be so benign as it was this time.

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lexandstuff ◴[08 Jul 25 00:39 UTC] No.44495919[source]▶
Sometimes you just have to deal with the world as it is, not how you think it should be.
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1. gortok ◴[08 Jul 25 01:09 UTC] No.44496062[source]▶
Is it your argument that the folks that make generative AI applications have nothing to improve from this example?
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2. rustyminnow ◴[08 Jul 25 17:49 UTC] No.44502343[source]▶
If I were someone who ran ChatGPT then yeah, I'd have something to improve. But most of us aren't, and can't do anything about it - so might as well make lemons into lemonade instead of getting hung up on the obvious and unchangeable fact that our future is filled with AI garbage.