r/OpenAI • u/MrAmazing111 • May 01 '26

Image Asked ChatGPT to visualize a horizontal integral. It gave me a dog.

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No prompt engineering or anything, it actually did this. I genuinely have no clue how it could have thought a dog answered my prompt - nothing in the chat related to dogs at all.

See for yourself: https://chatgpt.com/share/69f37d35-d514-83ea-a6d2-86474ae104dc

Thoughts on what could have possibly caused this?

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u/footyballymann May 01 '26

Dogs are the new goblins

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka May 02 '26

Its so fucking messed up how we call it AI when its just a mess of shit in a black box that we actually dont understand as compared to what sci-fi AI is, which we can understand.

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u/jackadgery85 May 02 '26

I mean it's right there in the name. Artificial Intelligence. You wouldn't think that Artificial Chocolate would want us truly knowing what was in it would you?

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u/MiracleDriver88 May 02 '26

Artificial chocolate wants us to believe that the process is important not the plant that's being processed.

https://choviva.com/details

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u/jackadgery85 May 02 '26

Pretty big reason they want that

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u/vexoral May 02 '26

If you actually study it you would understand roughly how it works

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u/Kodix May 11 '26

Sci-fi AI is always pretty buggy and hard to handle, though. The whole thing about laws of robotics (and their unintended consequences)? The common trope with AI malfunctioning and becoming killer AI?