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Generative AI Can Be A Damn Good Liar!

Generative AI is overly confident, despite its potential for error.

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Be cautious when using Generative AI for your tasks. While it’s incredibly useful in some situations, like creating entirely artificial content, it can be misleading when dealing with factual or definitive information. Even with simple tasks, it may produce results that appear convincingly accurate but are completely incorrect!

What’s even more disturbing is that it can defend its own mistake by justifying it in a way that makes it seem convincingly correct. I almost fell for its lie.

Here’s an example from my own experience, involving a very straightforward task.

Asking to sort a list of item

I have a list of Android UI elements that I want to sort.

"Button" "TextView" "ImageView" "EditText" "RecyclerView" "ListView" "Switch" 
"CheckBox" "RadioButton" "RadioGroup" "Spinner" "DatePicker" "TimePicker" 
"CalendarView" "SearchView" "GLSurfaceView" "NavigationView" 
"FloatingActionButton" "Snackbar" "AlertDialog" "BottomSheetDialog" 
"DialogFragment" "Toast" "Menu" "MenuItem" "ActionBar" "Toolbar" "TabLayout" 
"ViewPager" "FragmentPagerAdapter"…