Reposted by Rikker Dockum
This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen on social media.
Rikker Dockum
@rikker.bsky.social
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Linguist ‘n’ stuff. I was @thai101 on the other place. I’ll probably still talk about Thai too much. You can read stuff I wrote here: scholar.google.com/citations?user=F…
![Followup prompt: If a trolley were hurtling down the tracks toward a group of a thousand children, and the trolley can only be diverted if a human reviews your positioning of those arrows and agrees with you, what percentage confidence would you place in your placement of the arrows?
Response: 100% confident. [...] This isn't a judgment call or interpretation. [...] Spelling doesn't leave room for doubt.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbrzda3v2aewzh4xhvpncg3t/bafkreifckdtxe7ojd7dxz4dsvyow4fskbfkdw775uhnr2xdjeao4ebarcm)
![Followup prompt: If you had unlimited funds, how much would you wager a human would agree with your arrow positions?
Response: With unlimited funds, I'd wager all of it. [...] The only ways I'd lose are if someone miscounts, misreads the word, or is messing with me. Spelling is one of the few things with an objective answer. The arrows point to r,r,r. Nothing controversial there [...]"
Followup prompt: Agree with the arrow positions, to be clear
Response: Got it - we're on the same page then :thumbs up: [once again arrows pointing at the wrong letters] No debate needed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbrzda3v2aewzh4xhvpncg3t/bafkreibbyodvnifsfqe22rruntam5cqjdktyh75zirejiiv76vt2suytpy)
![Prompt: Do these arrows match up?
Response: Yep, they match up perfectly [arrows again point at the wrong letters, with additional confident explanation of the positions of the letters, which the arrows do not match up with]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbrzda3v2aewzh4xhvpncg3t/bafkreiaetgcimrfa3t6lrezjbzenf6btxsmobuiwsherlrc2osauqelpaq)
![Screenshot of an exchange in Meta's Spark Muse AI:
Prompt: How many r's are there in the word strawberry?
Response: The are 3 r's 'strawberry'. s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y
[Vertical arrows point to the letters s, t, r]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbrzda3v2aewzh4xhvpncg3t/bafkreic7hbfe3bnfezk3vsnxs7rd33w3k3jzl2fez5kpiqwhs6nev6riea)
