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Unpopular Opinion

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[–] lily@shinobu.cloud 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All of the dictionary definitions it replied with are just made up to sound correct and not what those dictionaries actually say:

Merriam-Webster's definition is "not popular : viewed or received unfavorably by the public" Oxford's definition is "not liked or enjoyed by a person, a group or people in general" Cambridge's definition is "not liked by many people"

This is why you don't ask a LLM for factual information. It comes up with whatever it thinks sounds right, it doesn't actually go look up factual information for you.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, I wasn't asking for factual information, I just wanted the bot to explain to the OP that you shouldn't really post a widely held opinion to unpopular opinions.