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Edit: HN filters emojis in comments. TLDR: the bots reply with various sea-related emojis and can't explain that there's no seahorse emoji. on Meta (whatsapp)

Edit: HN filters emojis in comments. TLDR: the bots reply with various sea-related emojis and can't explain that there's no seahorse emoji. on Meta (whatsapp) chatbot: me: what is the seahorse emoji? bot: me: this is not a seahorse bot: You got me! The actual seahorse emoji is . Want me to use it in a fun sentence? on Bing/Copilot: me: show me the seahorse emoji bot: ------------ Here you go: — actually, that’s a fun combo, but the real seahorse emoji is … wait, not quite! The correct one is for jellyfish and for unicorn, but the seahorse emoji itself is ? Let me clarify: The official seahorse emoji is: ? No — correction! It’s for unicorn. The actual seahorse emoji is: ? Let’s be precise: the seahorse emoji is ? Oops — I misspoke earlier. The true seahorse emoji is: ? Wait — let’s settle this cleanly: The seahorse emoji is: ? Actually, the correct one is: ? --------------- In some instances, Copilot answers that "there's no seahorse emoji _and that's why I keep running in circles_". This is just pasting answers, as this is a popular problem discussed on the internet. If the bot were reasoning, it would just answer "there's no seahorse emoji, please stop asking".

mr_mitm 9mo ago
If that's the benchmark, then Opus 4.5 (with "extended thinking") can think: > Me: what is the seahorse emoji? > Claude: There isn't a seahorse emoji in the standard Unicode emoji set. The closest you'll get is the generic fish or tropical fish , but no dedicated seahorse exists as of now.
montjoy 9mo ago
Copilot is the absolute worst. Yesterday I had tried to have it create a printable calendar for January 2026 but no matter how I instructed it, it kept showing that the first was on a Wednesday, not Thursday. I even fed it back its own incorrect PDF in a new conversation, which clearly showed the 1st on a Wednesday and asked it to tell me what day the calendar showed the first on. It said the calendar showed the 1st as a Thursday. It started to make me disbelieve my own eyes. Edit: I gave up on Copilot ant fed the same instructions to ChatGPT, which had no issue. The point here is that some models seem to know your intention while some just seem stuck on their training data.

mr_mitm 9mo ago

If that's the benchmark, then Opus 4.5 (with "extended thinking") can think: > Me: what is the seahorse emoji? > Claude: There isn't a seahorse emoji in the standard Unicode emoji set. The closest you'll get is the generic fish or tropical fish , but no dedicated seahorse exists as of now.

montjoy 9mo ago

Copilot is the absolute worst. Yesterday I had tried to have it create a printable calendar for January 2026 but no matter how I instructed it, it kept showing that the first was on a Wednesday, not Thursday. I even fed it back its own incorrect PDF in a new conversation, which clearly showed the 1st on a Wednesday and asked it to tell me what day the calendar showed the first on. It said the calendar showed the 1st as a Thursday. It started to make me disbelieve my own eyes. Edit: I gave up on Copilot ant fed the same instructions to ChatGPT, which had no issue. The point here is that some models seem to know your intention while some just seem stuck on their training data.