2025.09.14
Heh. You might be able to test this for yourself ChatGPT Goes Completely Haywire If You Ask It to Show You a Seahorse Emoji. I got about the same result with "show me the seahorse emoji" and "is there actually a seahorse emoji or no?" - but when I said sure to "Do you want me to show you how it renders across different platforms (Apple, Google, Twitter, etc.)?" it righted the ship.
Thinking about the argument "well it's also probably an argument that there SHOULD be a seahorse emoji", though the idea that LLM points us to what should be rather than what is is kinda scary.
My current descriptor of ChatGPT et al is that it's a blender and remixer of commonsense. Crazily useful sometimes! But that blender makes some bizarre misinformation smoothies at other times.