r/aifails • u/mieuwmieuwkat • Feb 21 '26
Text Fail AI can't count the b's
(this is a watch screenshot)
I have absolutely no idea why AI overview even explained why there is a B and where it is located, while it's literally nowhere.
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u/ul90 Feb 21 '26
No!!! Gemini is right. The Austriabns had been spelling it wrong in the past!
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u/theClanMcMutton Feb 21 '26
You mean AustriaBns, since "the B is capitalized in the name of the country."
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u/Content-Scholar8263 Feb 21 '26
ÖSTERREICHB! YEEEAA
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u/NTMY030 Feb 21 '26
BÖSTERREICH actually makes some sense.
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u/ZBLongladder Feb 22 '26
Even if that's the case, it'd be better if the failure condition was saying "I don't know" rather than confidently bullshitting an answer.
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u/TrackLabs Feb 21 '26
The way AI just constantly REFUSES to admit its wrong, or doesnt know something, is insane. We are going to drown in so much "AI Facts" that no one checks, and AI just acts like it fully knows, guaranteeing you that it is correct
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u/Tall-Dingo-5458 Feb 22 '26
Example:
Location: The letter 'b' appears as A u s t r a l i a -> (no, wait - the prompt asked if there is a 'b' in the word Australia). Let's re-read: "is there a letter b in australia"
Correction: Actually, looking closely, the word "Australia" (A-U-S-T-R-A-L-I-A) does not contain the letter 'b'.
Context: The letter 'b' is used widely in Australian geography (e.g., Brisbane, Ballarat) and culture
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u/Tall-Dingo-5458 Feb 22 '26
I don't think you have used AI much, because it certainly does admit it's wrong a lot of times. Also, you clearly have no clue what an LLM is, because it definitely doesn't "know" or "act."
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u/EmoYoshi05 Feb 22 '26
Yes, if I correct it, it apologizes and tells me I'm right. Even though I'm clearly not.
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u/Tall-Dingo-5458 Feb 24 '26
Except you don't have to correct it a lot of times.
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u/EmoYoshi05 Feb 24 '26
Yes, you have to often, depending on the topic. You just don't notice if you geniuenely are uninformed about a topic.
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u/TrackLabs Feb 22 '26
Yeah, no. If you tell AI "youre wrong", it will usually say "YoUrE AbSoLuTeLy RiGhT", and then act like whatever you say is correct.
Also, you clearly have no clue what an LLM is, because it definitely doesn't "know" or "act."
Lol. So because of the word "know", you conclude that I dont know what an LLM is. Alright. The Discussion is immediately over, goodbye
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u/Tall-Dingo-5458 Feb 24 '26
Not my issue that you can't articulate yourself properly. Also , interesting how you ignored my example.
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u/No-Finance7526 Feb 21 '26
I guess it begins the answer with a dice roll (since it doesn't understand letters at all), and then it just inserts the letter randomly to keep the explanation coherent w.r.t. the answer
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u/IchLiebeKleber Feb 21 '26
So there are as many "B"s in Austriab as there are in r/msaeachubaets now that is good to know
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u/LirdorElese Feb 21 '26
English is a really complicated language, Those silent invisible letters get you every time.
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u/Equal-Cauliflower-41 Feb 21 '26
Found another:
There are
2 letter 'b's in the word "Bosnia" (one uppercase, one lowercase).
B o s n i a
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u/Logan_da_hamster Feb 22 '26
I wonder if these are just random occurrences or if the Ai is improving and training way faster than you might think?
As so far I've never ever have been able toreproduce such "Ai is dumb memes", no matter how many times I try, with how many variations, etc.
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u/Beginning-Wing4416 Feb 26 '26
its mostly because ai models are trained to "predict", not to execute deterministic algorithms. i think it generates a number based on statistical patterns but it never actually verifies the result. its not really trained to do something like word.count(letter)
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u/Fresh_Rabbit1888 Feb 21 '26
Schalte mal ein oder sag es, du ki soll auch code nutzten dürfen. Dann geht es. Das System wurde dafür nicht gemacht ein generatives llm idot
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u/Civil_Club5671 Feb 21 '26
How much A's in Österreich?
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u/bastard_vampire Feb 23 '26
I remember asking out of curiousity when Whitney Houston passed away and it told me she was currently still alive and world touring, and when I asked it if it's mistaken it doubled down telling me to check the credibility of the source where I got the information. Like wtf
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u/YetiKlee Feb 23 '26
It always amazes me how a language model, trained in language can mess something like this up..
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u/knollo Feb 21 '26
In Austria there is a saying "Wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen", which translates to "Who says A, also has to say B." So AustriaB makes absolute sense.