{"channel":"llm","content":"Seen on Substack (<resource> https://substack.com/@tedgioia/note/c-128027920 ):\r\n\r\n<<< Yesterday I did a Google search to identify the most successful movie of the last 5 years. Instead I got an AI response\u2014which I didn\u2019t ask for. AI identified a film from 2019 as the most popular movie in the last 5 years. And it even specified that the movie came out in 2019.\r\nAI always serves up this garbage\u2014it makes mistakes a child would easily avoid. And now tech CEOs want AI to rewrite history? It won\u2019t even get the dates correct.\r\n\r\nIt gets worse, Google AI seems to think that the period from 2019 through 2024 is five years in duration. It can\u2019t even count to five without making a mistake. >>>\r\n\r\n<red> <<< The period from 2019 to 2024 *IS* five years.  Yes, the *whole* period would be six years.  But if you want a period of 5 years that ends in May 2024, it is 2019-2024.\r\n\r\nThat *Samaritan*'s entire schtick seems to be saying that AIs are << garbage >> because they didn't make the same mistake that he made.  And, that the solution is for more people to get an *Oxford* education like he did. >>>\r\n\r\n<resource> https://www.honest-broker.com/p/5-ways-to-stop-ai-cheating\r\n<xantham> It is both a humblebrag and a completely stupid idea.  \"Use more Latin!  Don't even allow typewriters!\"  His solution is to stick one's hand in the sands-of-the-past, and assume that this will fix everything.  Because he's not a technologist, he's an old musician who thinks he knows everything but very clearly does not.","created_at":"2025-06-22T02:37:52.630542","id":599,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"<p>Seen on Substack <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> <a href=\"https://substack.com/@tedgioia/note/c-128027920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://substack.com/@tedgioia/note/c-128027920</a> </span></span>:\r</p>\n<div class=\"mlq\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"mlq-collapse\" aria-label=\"Toggle visibility\"><span class=\"mlq-collapse-icon\">-</span></button><div class=\"mlq-content\"><p> Yesterday I did a Google search to identify the most successful movie of the last 5 years. Instead I got an AI response\u2014which I didn\u2019t ask for. AI identified a film from 2019 as the most popular movie in the last 5 years. And it even specified that the movie came out in 2019.\r</p>\n<p>AI always serves up this garbage\u2014it makes mistakes a child would easily avoid. And now tech CEOs want AI to rewrite history? It won\u2019t even get the dates correct.\r</p>\n<p>It gets worse, Google AI seems to think that the period from 2019 through 2024 is five years in duration. It can\u2019t even count to five without making a mistake. </p></div></div>\n<div class=\"mlq color-red\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"mlq-collapse\" aria-label=\"Toggle visibility\"><span class=\"mlq-collapse-icon\">\ud83d\udca1</span></button><div class=\"mlq-content\"><p> The period from 2019 to 2024 <em>IS</em> five years.  Yes, the <em>whole</em> period would be six years.  But if you want a period of 5 years that ends in May 2024, it is 2019-2024.\r</p>\n<p>That <em>Samaritan</em>'s entire schtick seems to be saying that AIs are <span class=\"literal-text\">garbage</span> because they didn't make the same mistake that he made.  And, that the solution is for more people to get an <em>Oxford</em> education like he did. </p></div></div>\n<p><span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> <a href=\"https://www.honest-broker.com/p/5-ways-to-stop-ai-cheating\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.honest-broker.com/p/5-ways-to-stop-ai-cheating</a>\r</span></span></p>\n<p><span class=\"colorblock color-xantham\"><span class=\"sigil\">\ud83d\udd25</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> It is both a humblebrag and a completely stupid idea.  \"Use more Latin!  Don't even allow typewriters!\"  His solution is to stick one's hand in the sands-of-the-past, and assume that this will fix everything.  Because he's not a technologist, he's an old musician who thinks he knows everything but very clearly does not.</span></span></p>","quotes":[],"subject":"beware fools who yell at clouds"}