Jef Poskanzer on Nostr: Something just occurred to me about that 'ask a chatbot to draw a clock' thing that ...
Something just occurred to me about that 'ask a chatbot to draw a clock' thing that is going around this morning. If you search the web for "draw a clock", what you get is a bunch of papers on diagnosing cognitive decline. The clocks the chatbots draw look just like the examples in those papers. This is not because chatbots are demented, it's because those crappy clock drawings in the psych papers are what the chatbots trained on.
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