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I can confirm it and it's bloody hilarious!
"sometimes used in informal conversation to make a joke" - no, it isn't, stop lying.
"potatoes [...] are a limited, underground crop." - that's why Cuzco never rose to power, right? Right? No such thing as the Inca Empire, built upon potatoes, since they're a limited crop. ...or the Irish famine.
I can't... I can't even...
Note: ~a year ago I was testing Gemini and asked it "what's the difference in behaviour between a potato and an orange?", and it "told" me oranges are passive and potatoes are active. That's where the "expression" comes from - I often mock Gemini and LLMs in general with it.
I'll stop doing it, though. Onwards I shall refer to... the potato parable!
The Potato Parable
It has nothing to do what the AI said ofc, nor was it written by Caitlin D'Arcy, who is a character on a TV show. lol
Wow, his potato parable actually makes sense - unlike Gemini's couple therapy take. (The character in question isn't even a therapist, but a lawyer!)
For sure. I just looked it up out of curiosity to see if the source it gave was real or not. As someone living in my own metaphorical root cellar, it was actually enlightening and something I really needed to hear right now.