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Will Monroe
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Research scientist at Duolingo (natural language processing and speech recognition). Mostly posts funny AI fails, sometimes also cool linguistics facts and rockets.
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Another AI failure!!! Totally useless
September 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Starting to feel like most humans aren’t equipped to deal with something that confidently lies and communicates those lies with a fluency almost no actual humans possess
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
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July 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂
July 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Simple example for how errors can creep into our papers through LLM use: I had a statistic for 2020. I googled about the same statistic for 2023. AI overview tells me the statistic for 2023 and provides a link to support the claim. The link is to a 2023 article citing the 2020 statistic.
June 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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NYT: “For One Hilarious, Terrifying Day, Elon Musk’s Chatbot Lost Its Mind”

That’s not what losing your mind looks like

THIS is what losing your mind looks like
May 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Horrifying story of LLM content being retroactively added to physicsforums, as if it had been posted by the original authors.

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PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory
An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.
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January 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
them: ew, you like root beer? doesn't it taste like toothpaste?

me: amazing, this is my new favorite toothpaste! it tastes just like root beer!
One of my heresies is that cilantro tastes like soap and stinkbugs to everyone; it's just that some of us like that.
December 30, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Google did it, they broke math
December 12, 2024 at 3:44 AM