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AI will always find a difference

An anonymous Hacker News user observed that AI models like ChatGPT will always generate a comparison table when asked to differentiate between two items, even if the items are interchangeable in practice, likening the behavior to a high school trick of stating definitions to avoid answering. The comment, posted on Hacker News, highlights a perceived limitation in AI's ability to acknowledge equivalence.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 2, 2026

| |||||||||||| 1 point by | Ask AI "what's the difference between X and Y". It mostly would happily generate a table and compare them even if they are interchangeable in practice. Reminds me of a trick a teacher taught me in HS, if you don't know the answer to a question that asks you two compare two things, just state the definition "X is .... while Y is …" | ||||||||||| Applications are open till July 27. |

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news.ycombinator.com — original article Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills" Ask HN: How are you using AI to learn? Ask HN: When did we go from agentic loops to graphs?
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