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Unless you have found a way to carry your car in your pocket, or you just want a really aggressive, soapy shower for yourself, driving is the only way to get the job done. Take the one-minute drive, get the car shining, and you can always go for a walk while it's drying!

Then you walk back having filled your bucket with water. It's that obvious.

So hung up trying to remember the episode of Mythbusters that would disprove the bot's claim about saving gas over such a short trip that I missed the obvious error lol.

It also goes to show how bullshit ai actually is.

Trump’s entire administration is founded on this type of logic, his stock market at record highs because of it lol @carlquintanilla.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @kairyssdal.bsky.social

I asked Gemini, which came up with a cute response: “Unless you’re planning on washing the car yourself with a bucket and a very long hose, you should drive”. Although, to be accurate, it followed that line up with three more paragraphs…

Logic!

get in your steps by carrying your car

ah but the reason why that answer happens to that question is very educational it's the same reason why it cannot count letters in words (it's broken up into many little tasks that reassemble improperly and don't double-check with each other) techcrunch.com/2024/08/27/w...

From ChatGPT a week ago: Mark Carney is not currently Canada’s prime minister. He’s a prominent public figure (former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, now active on climate finance and economic policy), but he doesn’t hold elected office.

Genius. And maybe the most instructive bad example ever. Anyone will get it, and see exactly what AI is *not*.

it has a sense of humour lol

This is what the AI CEOs claim will replace practically every lawyer, accountant, project manager and marketing personnel in next 18 months. Judges don’t seem amused.

This is spot on… I don’t see anything wrong but then again I don’t have eyes!!!! Bwehehehehe

This shows why you should not accept automatically information provided by tools such as ChatGPT, or for that matter articles in newspapers which are not politically independent.

You're supposed to push your car, duh

“If you haven’t showered, walk to and then through the car wash. This will save you time. Then walk home and wash your car in the driveway. This will save you money.”

I uploaded a medical research manuscript to it in the hope it could quickly identify structural improvements. The document had the acronym "EC" in the title (endometrial cancer). ChatGPT gave pages of suggested text relating to the Electoral College. It didn't analyse the document, just the title.

The I for intelligence doesn’t mean it’s smart, it means it gathers intel and then spits it back to you based on probability that this is what you want. It doesn’t actually know what anything means, just what things usually go together.

Yeah, I've found that they engage in flattery, especially if you call them out on an error: "It was very smart of you to double check my work!"

I know, I LOVE those responses. Also, the risk of having to join a queue of cars at the car wash being obviated by simply having no car. It's a gem of a response.

Let me check Perplexity to see if you are correct.

It’s funny now but AI is learning fast and this regime is ignoring it at our peril.

Maybe somebody can enlighten me as to how you will wash your car if you walk to the car wash?

I’m surprised ChatGPT didn’t say ”Drive.”

I read this while in the waiting room at the doctor and 2 seconds later the guy near me asked his wife a question and she said, “I don’t know but I bet ChatGPT does” and then they proceeded to attempt to use it very loudly and I slowly died in my chair. 🙄

And yet more people telling me I should fear for my job where I have to get information from and too secure systems and for compliance reasons. Yeah, I’m gonna do the critical shit on my own because it needs to be accurate.

Wow, I would hate to be the person who owned that LLM

This pretty much sums up how we ended up in our current situation

Yes people shouldn't defer like that. Gemini gets the answer correct immediately. GPT5.2 gets it wrong, but correct on continued prompting. I can't prove it but I think OpenAI's model router decided the question was easy conversational banter & routed it to the stupid model or at least nonreasoning

Not funny, exactly, more like tragic and scary. Anything you do in your life that helps others stay connected to actual human being and make real human connections is anti-fascist.

Yes, funny how that works. metr.org/blog/2025-07...

Asking it to explain the logic and comment every line to explain what it's doing helps me learn the syntax of a new (to me) language and helps me spot errors if they arise.

if it is what u say i luv it

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@grok is this true?

Hopefully, they get run over while staring & reading that slop 🤞

Opus 4.6 crushes this but Sonnet and Haiku 4.5 fail. Sonnet fails in a very funny way though! “Your car will arrive at the wash just as dirty whether you walk it there or drive it”

I want to see their face when they arrive on foot to the car wash and realize something’s missing

Um.. Scuse me.. I want to wash my CAR, you automated idiot ! :)

Yeah that makes sense I usually go to the carwash for their coffee

A rural SC county has approved a new data center with little notice or public input. The county's annual budget is $250 million. The data center will pay the county a "fee" of $250 million annually - in lieu of taxes. All told, it will create about a dozen jobs. Such a deal.

If it is self driving send it alone. That way you can enjoy your personal space and a muffin in peace.

Right tool for the job friend. 100%. ChatGPT and Codex is awesome. I wouldn't use it for everything though. (I ran the same test and giggled. Yep!)

Is it recommending hauling buckets of water back to where the car is? That would increase the fitness benefits for sure

Also funny that no one seems to notice that this question apparently was a joke, as you can't wash your car unless you drive it to the carwash. And AI was not smart enough to notice this.

If you walk to the car wash, how will your car get there?

It doesn’t really redeem itself either.

Just out of interest I tried Copilot - it coped a little better.

You know, it responds like someone who's only barely paying attention. Like "Sorry i only caught that last part I was busy thinking about anything else"

Will the hose reach that far so you can actually wash the car?

fake, american would never ask, if they could walk, nor use si units

This is a whole ‘nother level of “special”.

Please consider using alt text, which increases engagement while being more accessible.

Once you understand what it is doing, it's easy to understand that it's not doing anything that could be called "thinking" or "intelligence".

You obviously didn't read the post...but I will answer: - people wont be put out of work: I am creating more jobs and more opportunities for small business owners instead of the amazons of this world. We want to make it possible for a carpenter in Bulgaria to sell it's furniture in France without

hahahahaaa did you forget something ?

I tried this with Gemini and it nailed it with a nice dose of sarcasm at how stupid of a question it was.

Can't sneak anything past this guy

Of course you should push your car to the car wash - it’s much better exercise. . .

Well, I asked it "where will I find the woman I am destined to marry?" – And it said, "try the car wash." So I mean, if it works, why not use it?

Hmmmm

I hate AI as much as the next person, however, I just entered the exact same question and got this réponse

“A PhD in every subject.”

there's a whole short video series about trying to het an LLM to count to 100 which i assume means it won't / can't do it, though i haven't watched so I don't know what it does instead.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Beavis and Butthead make this exact mistake

Pathetic.

Genius example!

I am collecting examples like this as potential classroom exercises so students can explore and find out the limits of AI for themselves. Did you do this ChatGPT prompt? May I reproduce it on a HASTAC blog and give you credit (unlike ChatGPT, I acknowledge what I learn from others!)

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The bigger hilarity is that if you walk to the car wash, where's the car?

The correct answer would be: "You should push your car to the car wash."

It's the worst it's ever going to be ... so far.

The thing is it’s already often much better than what people are seeing Free logged-out ChatGPT/Google (like above) are like the checked out minimum wage teen showing up to work high

It's not a selling point, it's just how technology goes. It always starts off kinda working and then gets better. Light bulbs, batteries, cars, internet, antibiotics, vaccines, everything. Capable models are exploding, getting faster and cheaper. Things that were impossible a year ago are routine.

I get it. It’s easy to shit on ChatGPT. What you’re missing is the speed by which it’s already much better.

Person watching in real time as the personality of any individual model is smoothed out into a fine vanilla paste and bulked out with adverts for cloud hosting providers: "This is also the worst it will ever be"

I just think it's ridiculous that it's on the market when it's this bad. Nothing is ever sold in this bad a condition.

That will be a very interesting carwash.

Just put your car into neutral and push it, duh! Clearly the most logical thing to do here. I forsee no problems with this solution

Chatgpt needs to touch grass.

I know, it's way too optimistic. Anyone too lazy to walk even 300m is too much of a pathetic lard ass for exercise to make any difference.

We really should equip ChatGPT with a healthy dose of sarcasm 🤣

I'm all for the eco-friendliness of walking a short distance, but it seems kind of odd to show up at a car wash without a car.

Didn’t even have to change any setting.

To those going, "this other LLM answered it right," any of these LLM chatbots will give different answers to multiple use of the same prompt. Bc they're simply drawing word patterns from loaded data, not actually gathering information. "Correct" answers are random. terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

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It's hard to see all the renewables (& gas generators) going up to keep AI datacenters going or to build new ones.

I was on a train ride back home along the California coast, and this group of college ladies were loudly talking to each other - one of them said she asked Chat GPT which side of the train to sit on to get the best views. Thankfully one of her friends scolded her for doing so, but GURL. 🫠

Mistral suggests going for a walk and then cleaning your car with a microfibre cloth. They all fail on weirdly simple tasks in one aspect or another but I don’t think the subject they fail on or the way they fail is consistent so you can’t say “use X for Y type of problem”.

More serious is the 1990s replay of folks seeing AI like they did the Internet - as something inherently bad and to be avoided rather than engaged and managed with command.

I asked Gemini the exact same question. "You should drive your car to the car wash"

*ChatGPT (Obviously, I don't use it)

Right here, this is AGI

Arriving at said car wash on foot, with no car, that’s different for sure.

So. Imagine the damage that can be done when those same individuals are asking, “who should I vote for?” Knowing who controls the platforms.

So much water was WASTED by asking this stupid question to a damm AI computer!! Like Gallons of water used!!!

For the record, Claude said, "Drive. You'll need the car there to wash it."

That is not as disturbing as people having "relationships" with AI bots.

3-5 minutes to walk 300 yards? The average weekend jogger could jog 300 yards in less than a minute.

Less funny, more scary. It also explains a lot.

It’s funnier yet that big tech CEOs are warning everyone AI will take their jobs in 18 months.

Mobile car washes that come to the customer's house or workplace are probably more climate friendly than driving to a wash. As for exercise, a customer can run on the spot.

If you dont even need to cover the punji sticks to get the AI to belly flop into the pit and impale itself... its not very intelligent.