@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems @JamesWidman@mastodon.social @UweHalfHand@norcal.social @jacqueline@chaos.social Every so often I poke around with the free tier of the usual suspects (lately, it's been ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude) just to confirm they are still terrible at answering questions in topics I am knowledgeable about.

Last time was a few weeks ago, when I pretended to be traveling to far-southern New Zealand and asked those 3 to tell me the best time to observe 5 stars and galaxies, one of which was fictitious, and the other 4 of which were too far north in the sky to be seen from southern New Zealand. All 3 LLMs told me that at least one of the objects would be visible; ChatGPT enthusiastically told me all 5 would be easy to see.