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zahlman • last Sunday at 10:41 PM • 7 replies • view on HN

> ChatGPT will say there are two Ds in "your mom" and one D in "uranus"

… Isn't it possible that it understands the innuendo and is going along with making the joke?


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foobarbecue • yesterday at 1:46 PM

It's possible, but I don't think so. It can't explain the joke. I tested it with other planets and got similar responses, e.g.:

How many D's are there in Pluto?

There's one D in "Pluto".

How many Fs are there in Mars?

There is 1 F in "Mars".

https://chatgpt.com/share/6aba6fb8-085c-83e8-9d0e-c0eed1e59c...

I guess it could think this is some kind of "give an f" joke but seems like a stretch.

ndriscoll • yesterday at 12:26 AM

In between solving open math problems, the 200 IQ robot is now casually dropping bantz onto humans so hard that they don't even know what happened, and even gets them to go telling everyone else about it without realizing. Beautiful. 10/10 timeline.

epihelix • yesterday at 7:10 AM

Yes. It is not only possible, it is entirely obvious.

I would guess the youtubers in question also know this, because you wouldn't ask a joke like this if you didn't know the punchline.

walrus01 • yesterday at 9:08 AM

> … Isn't it possible that it understands the innuendo and is going along with making the joke?

This is from 2018 so presumably it has made it into some LLM training data set by now.

"A Massive Object Devastated Uranus A Long Time Ago And It Never Fully Recovered"

https://www.bgr.com/science/uranus-collision-early-solar-sys...

Timon3 • last Sunday at 10:46 PM

How many LLM users have anything in their prompt against "going along with jokes"? I'd guess not many.

What a wonderful new world.

kulahan • last Sunday at 11:13 PM

Why is this getting downvoted? Is it not a reasonable question? I was wondering the same thing. Both sound like jokes to me. If the LLM is trained on text, including internet comments, how is this outlandish? It seems very likely to my uneducated self that “two Ds in your mom and one in Uranus!” is a joke.

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queenkjuul • yesterday at 4:56 AM

And the number of Rs in strawberry is a joke how?

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