If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy Grok can’t put a cat in a bikini, so it’s of no interest.
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@davidrevoy I assume since witches tend to have black cats the parrot machine will spit that out with higher probability. It's avian intelligence all over. :p
@keeya Yes, it can be an evidence this 'encyclopedia' hallucinate information by regressing to the mean statistically since witch+black cat is a common trope.
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy well, funny that. AI facial recognition has already wrongly identified suspects despite the person being arrested looking nothing like the actual suspect.
at least grok realised the cat is a cat! /s
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@davidrevoy Il y a une faute de frappe dans "grok", il manque le "on" à la fin.
@Stem 🤣 🤣 🤣 lol. Bravo!
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy The writer of a biography of a person close to our dog, Bruno, described Bruno as "black". And they did meet Bruno while writing the biography. I stopped fact-checking that book after some 20 pages.
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy "Fact checked by Grok" is probably the most radioactive statement in 2026, right after "has visited Epstein island".
I do gotta say: your comics are very fun!
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy I don't know what's more frightening: That there's a Grokipedia or that it's about as useful as you'd expect.
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy I’d be more worried about seeing a naked Pepper since that might be illegal to have on my screen.
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy Yeah sure, let the AI fact-check things and a blind person paint your house
(Just in case to be clear, this is not directed at you David)
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@davidrevoy
That's a good example of what "AI" really is: Predictive text."A witch and her ... cat" - what's the most statistically likely word to go there?
@leeloo @davidrevoy Was just gonna write this - clearly David is statistically incorrect ;-)
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy Too bad people don't know that Garfield is in fact a black cat as well!
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy Grok reminds me of this one Swedish childrens movie I saw as a kid where for complicated childrens story reason a poor family decides to pool all their money together and send the dad of the family to the circus, and it's very much implied that he took the money and fucked off to the pub, cus when he gets back he tells them all wonderous tales of all the fantastic things he saw at the circus and the whole ruse comes to a crashing halt when breathlessly describe the air acrobats as actually flying, like levitating off the ground, cus he was very clearly just bullshitting.
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@davidrevoy "Fact checked by Grok" is probably the most radioactive statement in 2026, right after "has visited Epstein island".
I do gotta say: your comics are very fun!
@KFears @davidrevoy Are you suggesting that a random bullshit generator might not in fact be great at reliably checking facts? Heresy!
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy It's statically more likely, but entirely incorrect, for a witch's cat to be black.
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@davidrevoy must be a black carrot.
The color of carrots is actually fascinating bit of history. I suspect human selection is the cause of the colour and they are normally very dark purple or white.
David! Where are Carrot's brother and sisters? Also carrots, different colours. 😸
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy I think it's called "semantic leakage": you like the colour yellow -> you work as a bus driver. In this case, you are a witch by trade -> your cat is black. Can't wait for the next episode of avian intelligence! 😸
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The color of carrots is actually fascinating bit of history. I suspect human selection is the cause of the colour and they are normally very dark purple or white.
David! Where are Carrot's brother and sisters? Also carrots, different colours. 😸
@doctormo @davidrevoy “Dark purple carrot”… that’s a beet. You’re talking beets.
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
@davidrevoy Pepper Delivery Service ... Black Carrot, of course.
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If they can't get my cat's color right, imagine the errors on more serious topics...
Probably Grok: Did you know Metroid is a girl? 🤣
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@mos_8502 I think, or maybe merely hope, that having deep expertise and actually understanding all the code being spewed forth at alarming rates (even if I haven't actually read most of it), has long-term value.
But, I don't think I have any choice about using it and staying employed. If I want to keep working in the field I'm in, I'm going to be doing it with AI assistance. That was up in the air until recently...but, the current generation models+agents lay the question to rest.
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@swelljoe My reply to the vibe coder in this scenario is "well, then, what do we need you for? Pack up your desk."
Now, this is not to say I'm 100% dead set against it per se. I would restrict its use to expert-level programmers who understand the problem domain, on the grounds that you need to know the language at a high level and understand the problem if you're going to debug and maintain the code.
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@mos_8502 the vibe-coder answer to that is, "I don't need to understand it, I just ask Claude to maintain it, too." And...I scoffed at that idea in the past. But, it's gotten really good.
I think it's still very dangerous in the hands of non-technical folks. And, I think most of the models are still flailing a lot (the frontier models are all pretty good, but Opus 4.5 is the one that Just Works, but all the lower end models are stupid a lot).
I dunno. The ground shifted beneath my feet.
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@mos_8502 I was dragged into using it at work, and I've had to accept that I was wrong about how well it works. I still have plenty of reservations about its use. But...it can write good software very, very, fast. And, in an agentic configuration (like Claude Code or whatever other agentic harnesses you wanna use), it can test its own work, verify outputs, etc. It's genuinely astonishing how well it works.
Whether I like it kinda doesn't matter. It works well enough to where it will be used.
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@swelljoe What worries me is the "competent operator". Best case scenario, the model generates perfect code that does exactly what the fuck it should -- and the user who prompted it has no clue how to maintain or debug the code.
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@mos_8502 I wasn't enthusiastic about AI for coding, but Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is remarkable. I can't really say I'm happy about it, but given a competent operator, it produces quite good, if a little verbose, code that works the first time most of the time. It writes better and more tests than I've found most human coders do, it often includes accessibility markup without being asked (another thing human coders simply don't do), and it documents its work.
