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.

| |||||||||||| 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. |