• palordrolap@fedia.io
    14·
    1 day ago

    Comic logic aside for a minute, 15 weeks seems implausible what with at least one change of season guaranteed.

    I did try searching for what the actual longest becalming might have been, but search is terrible, my search skills are terrible, or that information isn’t neatly packaged anywhere.

    (One “helpful AI” suggested a particular number of days, but after asking for its source and it failing to provide one, I was able to get it to tell me that it made that statistic up. Isn’t AI brilliant?!)

    • Solumbran@lemmy.world
      42·
      1 day ago

      You asked an hallucination generator about information, then asked it to hallucinate about the source of the hallucination, and then got satisfied when it hallucinated a reason as to why the rest were hallucinations?

      AI is brilliant enough to make even its critics believe that it’s anything more than a slop machine, that’s already impressive.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        1·
        16 hours ago

        I know. While I didn’t explicitly say so, I chose my words very carefully.

        The one I tried was DuckDuckGo’s, and it provides links to what are supposed to be sources and it can also search the web for itself.

        I checked each of its apparent sources and couldn’t find its claim in them, and when I asked it, it did its own search - something it has successfully* done in the past. It found more potential sources and could not find the claim in those either.

        My phrasing was then “I was able to get it to tell me that it made that statistic up”. That doesn’t mean that it did make it up, or that it understood, but it was able to join the dots from the conversation and conclude that it, or a previous instance of it, might have made it up, and so one of its probable responses, especially given my inputs to that point, was an admission, and it was all but forced into giving that one.

        * - A while ago, it actually found a source for an answer it gave when I asked it to do so. It had misunderstood (or misread, or some other more suitable word for what they actually do) the source and was wrong, but it at least found a page that was very likely where it got the information from in the first place.

        (Ironically, I misread a source and was wrong about something very recently. I would say I know how it feels, but you and I both know that would also be wrong.)

    • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Idk, seems pretty plausible to me. Like, what if one of the crew members took his crossbow and shot an albatross? Then you’d expect it to be as idle as a painted ship upon a painted sea.

  • NedRyerson@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 day ago

    I feel like I should understand this comic, but I don’t. Is it that LLMs all give the same advice to unemployed people or something?

    • StripedMonkey@lemmy.zip
      7·
      1 day ago

      It has nothing to do with AI, I see it as highlighting the irony in the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps”/grind set mentality. They’re stuck in a situation where their options and capabilities are limited, and rather than suggesting something realistic or achievable they’re being recommended things that are impossible to do while stranded at sea.

      You could possibly make some “let them eat cake” type allegory as well.

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Unfortunately, this is the kind of advice that regular people used to give unemployed folks before LLMs were in use. But you’re on track in that it’s making fun of that bad advice.