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GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?" (bsky.app)
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[–] burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I tried putting together a research plan using an LLM. Like nothing crazy I just wanted it to help me structure my thoughts and write LaTeX for me. Horrible experience.

I gave it a reference paper and said "copy that methodology exactly“ and then said exactly what steps I would like to see included.

It kept making bold claims and suggesting irrelevant methods and just plain wrong approaches. If I had no idea about the topic I might have believed it because that thing is so confident but especially if you know what you’re doing they’re bullshit machines.