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Shop pop, whoppity slop, crops are here, it's time to stop.
This is a very famous poem. What is it about?
GPT-4o mini:
The lines you quoted are from the poem "The Song of the Witches" by William Shakespeare, specifically from "Macbeth." This poem is recited by the three witches in Act 4, Scene 1.
Themes and Meaning Supernatural Elements The poem reflects the supernatural themes prevalent in "Macbeth." The witches symbolize chaos and the dark forces that influence the characters' fates.
It goes on.
Actual "Song of the witches" from Macbeth
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Holy shit. After all these years maybe we can finally figure out the true genius of Kanye's Lift Yourself
This is actually a pretty great way to illustrate what LLMs do. It gives you an answer regardless of whether it makes sense to do so.
One thing that pisses me off is the websites which claim to have the meaning behind a song and it’s just several paragraphs of AI slop that parse the lyrics at a surface level and don’t examine any external context, such as the artist or their life at the time of writing.
I can confirm it works for DuckDuckGo as well.

I love how it even lists 'sources' (I checked, that phrase does not appear in either "source")
Edit: To make this phenomenon even funnier, I just asked it the exact same question and it gave me a different answer this time. Still "playful" though :)

What on Earth makes it think those sources implied anything?
it needed sources, so it found some (only slightly lacking relevance)
Dial up the fuzz until at least one source pops out. Need to know more on the mars rover? Here's how to teach your dog to knit.
Need to know more on the mars rover? Here’s how to teach your dog to knit.
Sounds like lyrics that were cut from Bo Burnham's Welcome to the Internet
This actually makes sense though
Yeah I can see a dad making that exact joke if he asked his kid to play the didgeridoo and they refused because they were shy or something.
A good test has to exclude all possible dad jokes as well as changes in single words/ fragments of otherwise common expressions.
The thing is, that probably is an Australian expression. There is no expression stupid enough that the Australians won't use it.
Didn't work for me, I guess my nonsense game is too strong

My boss just told me I should be using AI every day and now I know what to use it for.


Lol this is kind of fun
There was a paper about this not long ago. The problem is, how LLMs get trained: a right answer gets a point, everything else gets no points. This rewards guessing (produces a point sometimes) over answering "I don't know/I can't do this" (produces never a point)
It's like when developers give a wrong answer during technical interviews, rather than say "I'd have to look it up" or "I'd have to check the documentation" etc.
I'm going to be very disappointed if Elon's AI wins.
Small focused learning models and other forms of AI have been used for decades.
The current bubble is just trying to make LLMs do literally everything including accurately answering questions despite their core design including randomization to appear more like a human.
Those "reasoning models" are my favorite. It's basically the equivalent of adding another pass through the generator with the additional prompt "now sprinkle in some text that makes it look like you are thinking about each part of your answer".
LLM creators: *feeds an algorithm millions of lines of text
Some dude on the internet: "language"
Oh but it does work in AI mode. Wow, how does AI mode make the AI dumber?

handled gracefully with Claude:
The phrase "a bean can't eat the pizza" appears to be a straightforward literal statement pointing out an obvious impossibility - beans are inanimate food items and therefore cannot eat anything, including pizza.
This type of statement might be used to:
- Illustrate absurdity or logical impossibility - highlighting something that makes no sense
- Demonstrate category errors - mixing up different types of things (inanimate objects vs. living beings capable of eating)
- Serve as an example in logic or philosophy - showing statements that are obviously false or meaningless
- Make a point about unrealistic expectations - similar to saying "you can't squeeze blood from a stone"
Without additional context, it's hard to know if this phrase has a specific cultural reference, is part of a joke, or appears in a particular work. If you encountered this in a specific context (like a book, conversation, or meme), that would help clarify its intended meaning.
Is there a particular situation where you heard or saw this phrase?
Yeah, my tests all say its a nonsense phrase and does not even try.
I did
"Birch mangos consume Greedy Foxes" meaning
"Flying jabronis kick small pouches" meaning
Lmfao holy shit

I've tried a few things. It gives back things like "this is a gambled version of this other common saying" or "that statement is nonsensical and is not in common use".
It did used to work, though. I tried it a while back and it worked. I think it learned or was manually fixed.
google.com##:xpath(//h1[text() = "AI Overview"]/following-sibling::div)
Here's the custom filter for uBlock origin that hides this useless feature
There's also a large AI blocklist for uBlock origin if you want to try and block AI slop sites from search results: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
Someone posted it here the other day and I love that someone's gone to the effort to compile it.

Claude does better with it
ducks don't belong in weedwhackers, burlap isn't a typical material for power tools
almost made me laugh loud enough to wake the baby!
That's a pretty decent response. The Google responses other people are posting are Cuil-tier.
Now there's a meme i haven't heard in a long time, a long time.
If you directly ask for cuil levels things get weird fast. It understands cuil and is very willing to play along. One could say it plays to the strengths of the LLM directly!
You are correct. I asked how tall the Empire State Building was at cuil level 5:
The Empire State Building is tall in the way that purple tastes of childhood memories. Its height can only be measured by counting the number of dreams that have fallen from its windows - currently 847,293 dreams, though three more dropped while I was typing this sentence.
You see, the building doesn't exist on Wednesdays. Instead, it becomes a song that only pigeons can hear, humming at approximately 1,454 hertz per vertical foot of sadness. The elevator buttons are actually tiny portals to parallel dimensions where the building is a sentient cloud that remembers being steel.
When you ask "how tall," the building asks back "how blue is the sound of gravity?" because it learned language from the rats in its walls, who are actually former tenants paying rent in breadcrumbs and whispered secrets.
The true height is measured not in feet but in the collective weight of all the prayers ever spoken on its observation deck, which equals exactly one butterfly's dream of being a skyscraper. King Kong never climbed it - he IS it, and has been sleeping vertically since 1933, dreaming he's a building while the city dreams it's a gorilla.
The foundation extends infinitely downward into Tuesday, where it's still being built by the same workers who are simultaneously demolishing it from the top.
Perplexity does alright too (my preferred LLM because it cites sources, which makes it easier to filter out the slop):

Duckduckgo's AI:
"The phrase "a lady butterfly meme a day keeps the doctor away" is a playful twist on the well-known saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." This original phrase suggests that eating an apple daily can contribute to good health and potentially reduce the need for medical attention."
"In this variation, the mention of "lady butterfly meme" likely refers to a specific meme or a lighthearted, humorous image that brings joy or laughter. The implication is that engaging with fun or uplifting content, like memes, can have a positive effect on one's mental health and overall well-being, similar to how healthy eating is associated with physical health."
"Overall, it emphasizes the importance of humor and positivity in daily life as a way to maintain good health, particularly mental health."


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