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I ran into this today while searching for a way to merge channels in Slack. A google search turned up this result https://www.process.st/how-to/merge-channels-in-slack/ which describes an in-app method that does not exist.

That entire website should be banned from Google.

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It should also be banned from AI training data sets. Good luck to anyone trying to train an AI!

As far as I can tell, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are extremely aggressive about making up features of widely used software that don’t actually exist. I lost count of how many tables and columns in MySQL’s INFORMATION_SCHEMA they made up for me yesterday, often complete with elaborate SQL commands to query them.

The next generation of models will train on this crap.

This was one of my first reactions to genAI. Sure it’s impressive now, but that’s because we trained it.

The internet is going to end up like a fuzzy mpg video that keeps getting compressed every time it gets reposted somewhere new.

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