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How the Copilot hallucinated Christmas (archive.is)

submitted 4 weeks ago by trompete@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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Scaling up a recipe for a massive gathering is a common holiday practice in my Italian American family. I tried showing Copilot a recipe for stuffed mushrooms from Sip and Feast. It acknowledged that to go from a serving size of six to 14 would require multiplying each ingredient by about 2.3 times, but it usually only did a couple calculations before expecting me to do the rest or trying to move on to another topic by asking me a question. When it noticed the site had options for scaling up the recipe, it mistook the “2x” and “3x” buttons for plus and minus ones that would let me dial in exactly 14 servings, and kept insisting that’s what those buttons are for. They aren’t. Then, as a last-ditch effort, I asked it to just calculate each ingredient and spell it out for me in a document. Copilot told me it would, and then did nothing.

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[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I get the sentiment but good grief multiply by two and add a little extra. It's hot food not physics.

[–] trompete@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk if you read the article but Microsoft literally had Copilot do this exact thing in their Christmas ad. The author didn't come up with this scenario, Microsoft's marketing bozos did. The author tested all the scenarios from the ad and it failed at all of them.

[–] microfiche@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah. I read it.