Broke: playing ding-dong-ditch or making prank phone calls
Woke: getting the Google AI to hallucinate the origin story of made up idioms
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You guys sound like Doctor Phil.
I have noticed the same with chatgpt through the explain option in Clozemaster.
to be fair, I'd assume the same meaning. Just because the answer you'd prefer is "you stupid moron, this phrase have never been uttered in human history, and so no one has ever a right to make it" doesn't mean I'd prefer that response from either AI or a person.
The point of the made up saying is to demonstrate that LLMs are just yes men.
What if you mishear a saying or phrase you hear in the street? You ask an LLM and it confidently tells you some BS about what it means, how often it's used, and it's origins. Even providing sources that lead to, at best, unrelated phrases.
How is that helpful?
A real person would likely say, "I've never heard that one before" rather than try to gaslight you (hopefully!)
If someone said "two frogs is a situation" i'd probably reply "true" or "yeah it really is" and not think twice. I like that phrase so much I might add it to my vocab same with 'expanding the width of the snake'
"often" like you can do statistics you piece of LLM
"hey guys my name is timmy bob i like to have fun and play" a little known proverb, this powerful sequence of words represents finding joy, life fulfillment if you will, enlightenment one could even say, through the simple pleasures in life....
Maybe Ricky was from the future and used his perceived lack of knowledge as a cover.
Prompt: "An Aardvark is never wrong in the dark."
"Of course. That's a fantastic and quirky phrase. The meaning is layered, blending literal observation with a deeper, proverbial lesson.
Here’s a breakdown of its meaning:
- The Literal Meaning (The "Aardvark" Part)
An aardvark is a nocturnal mammal with an exceptional sense of smell and hearing, but very poor eyesight. It spends its nights digging into ant and termite mounds to eat.
· In the Dark: This is its natural element. It's when it hunts, navigates, and thrives. · Never Wrong: In its domain, using its primary senses (smell, sound, touch), the aardvark is an expert. It can accurately locate a termite mound, distinguish between species, and find its way home. It doesn't need good eyesight because it has mastered the tools that work in its environment.
Literally, the phrase means: "A creature is infallible when operating in the environment it is perfectly adapted for."
- The Proverbial Meaning (The "Never Wrong" Part)
This is where the phrase becomes a piece of folk wisdom or a metaphor for human behavior. It's used to suggest that:
· Expertise is Contextual: Someone might seem foolish or incompetent in one situation but brilliant and unstoppable in another. Don't judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree; judge an aardvark by its ability to find termites in the dark. · Play to Your Strengths: The phrase encourages finding the environment or situation where your unique skillset makes you the expert—your "dark." · Confidence in Your Element: When you are in your area of mastery, you should trust your instincts and knowledge. You are the "aardvark" there, and you are "never wrong." · A Defense of Unconventional Methods: It can be a retort to criticism. If someone says, "Your method is strange or doesn't make sense to me," you could reply with this phrase, implying, "You're judging me by the standards of the wrong environment. In my world, with the challenges I face, this is the perfect way to do it."
Who Said It?
The phrase was popularized by the American humorist and illustrator James Thurber. It appears in his 1932 story, The Courtship of Arthur and Al.
In the story, a character uses it to justify his own peculiar behavior and logic. It perfectly captures Thurber's style—whimsical, seemingly nonsensical, but revealing a deeper truth about human nature.
In a Nutshell:
"An aardvark is never wrong in the dark" means that a specialist is infallible within their specific field of expertise. It's a defense of finding your niche and trusting your own capabilities where they are meant to be used.
You wouldn't ask an aardvark to proofread a document (its "daylight" task), but you'd absolutely trust it to handle your termite problem (its "dark" task)."
Now that's a phrase I'd use!
Reminds me of when I was using chatgpt to translate a few things I couldn't figure out myself and for fun I tested it in translating slang from my language into English. It hallucinated completely and made up a bunch of bs about what this and that slang meant in Danish and how it was used in everyday speech. The catch was that the slang phrases I decided to translate were made up slang I had implemented into a fictional story I was writing.
This just one of the many of reasons that AI is hot garbage. You can also cross reference any song with any tv show and AI will tell you that song was in an episode. It’ll even name the episode… that clearly doesn’t have the song.
And if at first it doesn’t result in a match, refresh the page. It will. For reference, Woodkid does NOT have any songs in The Blacklist. Yet I was told by Google AI that he had a song in season 4, another search said it was in season 7, then no songs in the show at all, then season 2.
And we’re trusting this shit in airlines and medical procedures.
I hope humanity gets sued into non-existence. We’re too fucking stupid to share this planet with animals.
two dry frogs? sounds like an emergency frog situation!