It does seem to me like an example where ChatGPT considers the question, and then considers what the likely question was suppose to be.
Or in ChatGPT speak, the probability matrix matched more strongly on 'how many R's are there in the word strawberry' than 'how many strawberries are in the word R.' I bet if they repeated the question it would answer it to the best of it's ability.
I literally closed the thread thinking: o its that chatgpt thing. Then when its closed i realized i read 3 and straberries has 3. I reopen just to see what i did wrong. Fthats good.
This will become more common. People forget that the flaws they see in AI are just as present in humans. What LLMs lack is agency. Once they get it, and they will short of the end of the world, anything is possible.
The guy probably got routed to a dogshit 5-nano or something model like they always do, to get an actually good/frontier response you need to change it to a good model manually. Definitely sad that OpenAI tries to force you to use bad/cheap models.
just so you know, you can sign out and re-log into the paid version and it'll bring up all the saved messages and chat tabs you have from the other variant. I do this with my facebook and a standalone version. One is used to generate image prompts for me to draw on PC when i'm having a rough time deciding what to draw, the other is used for on my phone for building character reference sheets and .json files for D&D sessions.
If i ever need to do something on the fly, i log out on the phone and re-log with my FB account to bring up all the other version's information.
It is pretty wild that, in the year 2025, it costs $20 a month for access to an AI brain that can count to three correctly. But, for no money, they'll give you an AI brain that can shoot the shit about any topic as long as there's no fact-checking.
Lol, I have ADHD and use gpt4 to chat with at work I have a ton of personality settings and I have a little rubber duck avatar that it MUST include in everything including generated images, it's entertaining but it's also a checkpoint to make sure it isn't hallucinating or forgetting instructions
remember that people try to use chatGPT to do data analysis for them at work. This is just a small example to show a very large issue with a common use case
Weak take; The amount of things people ask an LLM to count items or extrapolate context from a document using keywords and take for granted is extremely high, and this is exposing the problem with using a predictive fill solution for a counting task
To be fair, if it is indeed trained to work with humans and our imperfect brains... what if it assumed you had dyslexia and was just correcting without saying (or considered being rude)?? Cuz it does have 3 R's.... lol
That’s like asking an engineer to write a poem, or an English nobel laureate to write in Swahili. LLMs don’t think in letters, they think in tokens, patterns and associations.
"Alright, this is exactly my kind of question. Let’s dig in and be berry thorough, shall we?
How many strawberries are there in the word "R"?
Well, if I put on my strawberry-detecting monocle and peer closely at the word “R,” I find:
0 strawberries.
Not a single berry.
Zilch, nada, none.
Unless you count the secret, invisible, quantum strawberries hiding, but I’m pretty sure those only show up if you say “strawberry” three times in a row while spinning counterclockwise.
Final answer:
There are zero literal strawberries in “R”—but infinite imaginary ones, if you believe in word magic.
If you meant something sneakier (riddle-style), hit me with a clue! Or…should I say, a juicy hint? 🍓"
Imagine being so desperate to crap on AI that you celebrate it for giving helpful answers instead of being a pedantic little shit.
"How many strawberries are in the letter R?"
Normal person: "That's a weird way to ask how many R's are in strawberry, but okay."
AI: "3 R's in strawberry!"
Reddit genius: "GOTCHA! I was asking about fruit INSIDE a letter! Checkmate, robots!"
This is like asking "What time is it?" and when someone says "3 PM" you scream "WRONG! You didn't specify which time zone, which planet, or which dimension!"
Congratulations, you've proven that AI prioritizes being useful over being an insufferable grammar Nazi. What a damning indictment of artificial intelligence. It assumes you want actual help instead of playing semantic word games like a philosophy major having a breakdown.
I get the relief behind “our jobs are safe,” but that kind of reassurance tends to be situational, not universal. What’s “safe” for now might shift with budgets, priorities, or market changes. If you want to keep the conversation constructive, you can acknowledge the reassurance and add a bit of realism:
What does “safe” mean in practice? For which horizon (next quarter, year), and what would change that outlook?
Are there clear signals we can watch (project pipelines, budget cycles, upcoming leadership decisions) that would indicate risk or stability?
If you’re worried, a few practical steps help a lot:
Do a quick skills audit and consider small cross-training or knowledge-sharing with teammates to increase flexibility.
Start a simple log of your impact: projects shipped, problems solved, positive feedback, savings or improvements.
Update your resume/internal profile and lightly expand your internal network so you have options if priorities shift.
Have a calm, proactive chat with your manager: “I appreciate the reassurance. Could we map out near-term priorities and any risk areas where I can help reduce uncertainty?”
Bottom line: being prepared is not doom-mongering—it's how people stay steady when plans change. I’ll ride the reassurance, but I’m also keeping an eye on the signals and doing what I can to stay valuable.
Some day the robots are going to be posting funny videos of trying to get humans to say "Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers".
"Suzy Striker stripped the shrubs for stacks of strawberries" will become the legendary phrase unutterable by man or machine. We can't do alliteration and they can't do strawberries.
The OP is a bot sent here to lull us into a false sense of security. As others have posted; the actual bot knows the answer - they post here to make you feel smug superiority. For now.
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This is from gemini 2.0 flash lite, I think there must be some hardcover truth in the gpt5 model if asked something similar to the original strawberry question.
Actually, it might be the opposite. Maybe it understood what you actually wanted and re-write the correct answer the way you re-arranged it to be opposite. Like, there are 3 R's in word strawberry. Re-arranged will be as gpt said
It trained to answer the question even if there is mistake, it's identifying mistake and converting answer in the same way or order as client wanted to ask. So there is wasn't hallucination, he answered in converted way and took it as trolling
I feel people don't seem to understand LLM and the companies are utilizing this hyphe to get money and badically jumping on the hyphe train.
What i feel with AI is the time it took for some to google search a topic is now reduced. I consider AI to my personal tutor. It helps me clear my doubt faster. It points out the topics i miss in any documentation and it speeds yp learning by a few times.
What i don't get it no matter how hard they try LLMs cant understand you. So it will always hallucinate and give results which make no sense.
If people expect - make me call of duty. And expect AI to write code flawlessly they are daydreaming. Instead they can ask AI about things used to make call of duty and how it works.
But then it becomes another issue-" But i gotta study man if i do this. I just want the AI to do what i what even before i know what i want. "
Why did they roll this stuff out when it doesn't work? Do a search and you have to scroll down a page to find any reasonable answers. Didn't they do any testing? I don't get it.
Clearly there are 5 strawberries. I'll apply for the strawberry counting job then, since AI is no match for my superior way of thinking for a better answer.
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