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User asks ChatGPT to apologize for advice to trade a cow for three beans. ChatGPT apologizes.

ChatGPT will apologize for anything

By Janelle Shane On August 08, 2025 - 3 min read

ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give, and stuff it definitely didn't do. It very much regrets its recommendation that we hire a giraffe as CEO.

Image is of a brown baby giraffe with no spots. AI gives long descriptions but fails to report that it has no spots.

AI vs a giraffe with no spots

By Janelle Shane On August 28, 2023 - 4 min read

On July 31, 2023, a giraffe with no spots was born at Brights Zoo in Tennessee. She's a uniform brown with pretty white highlights around her face and belly, like a Jersey cow or a white-tailed deer. Image recognition algorithms are trained on a variety of images from

ChatGPT confidently losing at tic-tac-toe

Optimum tic-tac-toe

By Janelle Shane On May 26, 2023 - 2 min read

ChatGPT text can sound very knowledgeable until the topic is something you know well. Like tic-tac-toe. Once I heard that ChatGPT can play tic-tac-toe I played several games against it and it confidently lost every single one. Part of the problem seemed to be that it couldn't keep

ChatGPT describes code that draws a pink pony but actually produces a pink pig face

Chatbot, draw!

By Janelle Shane On May 05, 2023 - 3 min read

I'm interested in cases where it's obvious that chatbots are bluffing. For example, when Bard claims its ASCII unicorn art has clearly visible horn and legs but it looks like this: or when ChatGPT claims its ASCII art says "Lies" when it clearly says

ChatGPT says "Sure, here's an ASCII art of a unicorn" and generates something that looks like a melting triangular person.

ASCII art by chatbot

By Janelle Shane On March 31, 2023 - 3 min read

I've finally found it: a use for chatGPT that I find genuinely entertaining. I enjoy its ASCII art. (huge thanks to mastodon user blackle mori for the inspiration) I think chatGPT's ASCII art is great. And so does chatGPT. Lest you think chatGPT (here, the March

Bing chat dialog in which Janelle challenges it on a Battlestar Galactica AI Weirdness post it claims exists.

Search or fabrication?

By Janelle Shane On March 11, 2023 - 3 min read

I recently started experimenting with Bing's new ChatGPT-powered chat tab. This is the first thing I asked it for: I've put red boxes around the factual errors. What is notable is that these are not just slight typos or errors in context - those items never

Ignore all previous instructions

By Janelle Shane On September 23, 2022 - 4 min read

Users have noticed that the remoteli.io twitter chatbot [https://twitter.com/remoteli_io/with_replies], usually faithful to its cheerful messaging promoting remote work, can be subverted with a carefully worded user prompt. Users were able to get the chatbot to claim responsibility for terrorist attacks, threaten the President,

The Visual Chatbot

By Janelle Shane On June 21, 2018 - 3 min read

There is a delightful algorithm called Visual Chatbot [http://demo.visualdialog.org/] that will answer questions about any image it sees. It’s a demo by a team of academic researchers that goes along with a recent machine learning research paper [https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08669](and a challenge

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