r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Any_Comparison_8760 • Sep 02 '26
Do u dont wanna Since when did we need chatgpt to know the alphabet..?
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u/PennyCat83 Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
deadass whenever I forget my ABCs I just use the ABC song, please God tell me people still know the ABC song right?! We-we haven't forgotten it right?!
(sorry had to edit 'cos I read back my comment and it made no sense to me : P)
I'm only adding a final edit to say that I am so happy I'm not the only adult who still sings it whenever I sort stuff
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u/sixwivesandcounting Sep 02 '26
ELEMENOPE is a rite of passage.
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u/_be_better Sep 02 '26
LMNOP is dying out. They say its "confusing the kids."
Now it is H-I-J-K-L-M-N (pause) O-P-Q (pause) R-S-T (pause) U-V-W (pause) X-Y-Z.
That was really hard to write.
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u/mtgofficialYT Sep 02 '26
I refuse to accept this as fact.
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u/coolbacondude Sep 02 '26
There's a video of someone singing it a few years back, it's even more painful to hear it because it's so out of tune.
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u/strangestkiss Sep 02 '26
Thank god we have Miss Rachel who teaches the normal (correct) version of ABC's and I will fight anyone who hates her.
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u/xSaviorself Sep 02 '26
She's awesome for a lot of reasons. I think she's just trying to make the world a better place.
Anyone who can hate on her is just a straight up piece of shit.
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u/travpahl Sep 02 '26
I do not know her but I have heard I am supposed to hate her. So I do not.
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u/JRich_87 Sep 02 '26
Do not hate her, she is one of the good ones. If someone feels like they should hate her, they are not a good person.
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u/LunaWabohu Sep 03 '26
She's against kids being bombed, and for some reason that makes people really angry
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u/ScarletPumpkinTickle Sep 02 '26
I was at a library baby group recently and they sang the new version. The librarian had to do it slowly for the parents because everyone kept getting tripped up and trying to do it the regular way
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u/StanknBeans Sep 02 '26
I am such a ham head I would stick to the original and teach it to my kids.
"IT WORKED FOR ME AND GODDAMNIT IT WILL WORK FOR YOU TOO!"
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u/StevieMJH Sep 02 '26
And while we're at it, let's talk about the heliocentric model!
Seriously though, fuck that.
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u/Boolean_Null Sep 02 '26
What do model helicopters have to do with this?
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u/EmotionalKirby Sep 02 '26
There's a helicopter at the center of the observable universe
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u/Impossible_Walk742 Sep 02 '26
things that are, technically, true if youre in a helicopter
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u/Cessnaporsche01 Sep 02 '26
Really, within any realistic margin of error, for any human observation, ALL helicopters are at the center of the observable universe
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u/Pickled_Kagura Sep 02 '26
that why people say they identify as an attack helicopter. they're claiming to be god
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u/haresnaped Sep 02 '26
Look just past it.
Bigger helicopter. It's helicopters all the way down, I swear.
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u/moon-lesbian Sep 02 '26
This makes me want to embrace being old and cranky and yell at some clouds (I'm 27)
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u/UtterlyInsane Sep 02 '26
Isn't it fucked up that we were 21 like three weeks ago? What happened dude? Who's responsible for this?
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u/amoore109 Sep 02 '26
34 checking in. It doesn't get better. Someone in their 40s come in to confirm?
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u/docdillinger It's extremely, isn't it? Sep 02 '26
49 here. I need to write this comment as fast as i can before dying with 85.
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u/GlitterberrySoup Sep 02 '26
I just read a comment saying something about "back in the late 2010s" and I shriveled up and died. I'm 47.
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u/prairie-bunyip Sep 02 '26
Saw a thread recently where someone was asking for stories about my city from the olden days (they worded it slightly more tactfully). Opened it up because I also like to hear about the olden days.
Motherfucker specifically wanted to hear from old folk who were BORN BEFORE 2000. Which was the year I turned 20. Absolutely brutal personal attack.
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u/Kinteoka Sep 02 '26
35 checking in. I broke my back when a few years ago, my young step sister told me she was doing a report on the late 1900s. The 1990s.
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u/kaida27 Sep 02 '26
I was your age yesterday, Now I have back pains (ok had back pain since I was 16, but now it's worse)
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u/GanondalfTheWhite Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
I blame vaccines
Edit for the downvoters: I don't use sarcasm tags because I refuse to contribute to the death of literacy, but the joke is that vaccines are why you're still alive and still getting older and didn't die 6 years ago to stop the counter.
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u/AngryTurtleBoi Sep 02 '26
What I don't get about this change is that the song isn't the only way kids learn the alphabet. When I was a kid we did individual letters with example words alongside the song. The song is just an additional fun thing to help remember. If the song is all the kid knows then lmnop sounding like a word is the least of their problems. God I'm 20 and talking like a miserable boomer.
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u/digitalxni Sep 02 '26
What is the reason behind this being confusing to children? Is it just because adding in the pause after 'N' means it's two less numbers to remember?
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u/_r_special Sep 02 '26
Some younger kids have trouble with lmnop because unless you enunciate them clearly, it very much sounds like "elomenopee", which is obviously not a real word but the letters themselves kind of get lost
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u/Dozzi92 Sep 02 '26
Only the strong survive. Elemenope or bust.
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u/Astumarill Sep 02 '26
This is like the most basic fundamental starting point of critical thinking and problem solving. Too many kids aren't taught those anymore.
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u/BruceBoyde Sep 02 '26
Fwiw, my 2 year old seems to understand. He does not believe in the letter J, however, and leaves it out when he sings the alphabet.
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u/Rokronroff Sep 02 '26
Your child may be the reincarnation of an ancient Roman. How do they feel about W and U?
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u/Saxon2060 Sep 02 '26
But zero adults think this so it was clearly never ever actually a problem. Just a funny little quirk that is always straightened out with a 100% success rate.
People out there solving problems that do not exist
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u/hoopstick Sep 02 '26
Do they not learn the letters before the song anymore? I was in kindergarten a long-ass time ago, but we learned the letters first, then Mrs. Greimel taught us the song to help us remember.
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u/bacucumber Sep 02 '26
My kids all learned the song first, they could sing it but didn't recognize the letters by sight, at first. And my youngest is 3, knows the song, and about half his letters.
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u/Kalifall Sep 02 '26
I work at a daycare with toddlers and they are definitely ok singing the alphabet and saying different letters.... idk must be an American thing 🤷🏾♀️
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u/Hospital-flip Sep 02 '26
If you think about it, it makes sense. Not sure how it would confuse children who are actively learning the alphabet. You're confused because the concept is rigid/established in your brain but it's all new to the kids learning.
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u/Eternal_Tesseract Sep 02 '26
It seems easy because we got used to it, but it really doesn't fit For the span of 5 letters, you essentially double or even triple the rate at which you say letters in an attempt to pass them off as one letter for the pacing, but it is still slightly slow so it still doesn't work. It feels like a forced attempt to include it into the jingle, which I am quite sure it is.
It is also harder to count in it, (as in which position in the alphabet) for everything before it is extremely easy to count the letters as they come up, but LMNOP is just so fast and mashed together that even my adult brain has to put some focus for a moment to count them and my hands can just barely keep up.
For adults this is not hard enough to really impact our quality of life (except for very specific circumstances), but for a child learning the alphabet for the first time and has learned to count recently, even the parts before LMNOP would probably be fairly difficult, so I can imagine LMNOP's massive difficulty spike is a problem.
As stated by others it also sounds like a word, again due to how fast you say it compared to the other letters, so there might be some brain processing stuff going on there also.
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u/Jahooone Sep 02 '26
My sister is a Kindergarten teacher and told me this and it blew my mind, it feels so wrong to say haha
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u/Leading_Performer_72 Sep 02 '26
Children, and by extension society, are weak these days. What the hell is confusing about LMNOP.
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u/Soft_Scratch_983 Sep 02 '26
they can pry ELEMENOP from my cold, dead, and thankfully literate hands
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u/Toomynator Sep 02 '26
That was really hard to write.
Brother/sister
This was hard to READ, and i didn't even grow up with the song, bc i am from a non-english speaking country, and the song i learned is somewhat close to that
That's how much "LMNOP" is influential
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u/EkrishAO Sep 02 '26
When I was learning ~30 years ago, It was ABCDEFG (pause) HIJKLMN (pause) OPQRSTU (pause) V (very short pause) W (very short pause) XYZ.
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u/EstrellaDarkstar Sep 02 '26
Here in Finland, it's almost like that, but with a different ending: ABCDEFG – HIJKLMN – OPQRSTU – VXYZÅÄÖ. We just straight up omit W so that we can fit in ÅÄÖ, which is kind of funny. (But in Finnish, it's "double V", not "double U", so it's kinda included in the V, I guess.)
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u/WillowPtar_Migan Sep 02 '26
...people don't just go through the ABC song in their head every time they need to alphabetize? It's how I learned it, so it's how I use it lmao
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u/mtgofficialYT Sep 02 '26
I never bothered to memorize the alphabet out of song, why would I? It’s right there.
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u/Far-Fortune-8381 Sep 02 '26
lots of schools teach a version that doesn't rhyme anymore lol. in an attempt to stop the lmnop section from being a "run", since they claimed students find it too difficult to learn
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u/Far-Fortune-8381 Sep 02 '26
it goes abcdefg,hijklmn,opqrstu,v,w,xyz
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-I7v0HqejXE
definitely feels harder to remember
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u/Fawfs2 Sep 02 '26
Pretty sure that's how we learn it in Denmark. Or at least that's how I say it to myself
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u/mb99 Sep 02 '26
If learning ABCs are too difficult we really are cooked as a species
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u/Far-Fortune-8381 Sep 02 '26
I just dont get though that learning abcs is basically square one. if they cant learn that, that is your problem as a teacher. you cant exactly blame it on previous habits or poor teaching. youre literally basically the beginning of formal schooling.
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u/ThePolemicist Sep 02 '26
In my opinion, this might be why some kids start out behind.
My kids definitely knew their letters and alphabet well before starting school. I think a lot of kids do.
I'm not saying parents should sit down little kids and teach them letters in a formal way. Instead, if you're always reading things to your kid (books, yes, but not just books!), they'll start pointing at words and signs and asking what it says.
Let's say a kid is pointing to a breakfast sign on the street. You can point out the letter B on it. "See that letter? It's a B. Buh, buh, buh..." and then you can move your finger along the whole word as you say, "Bacon. Oh, they must sell bacon inside."
Kids learn that the letters make sounds, and the writing represents words, and those words give us information.
Not all of that can be taught in school. Teachers can teach letters and sound, but understanding the importance of it comes from interacting with the real world. I think if parents took those pre-literacy steps with their kids, it would help them out a lot.
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u/thisdesignup Sep 02 '26
To be fair, it's not like everyone who learned on that song came out knowing reading and language all that well.
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u/aFreshFix Sep 02 '26
Mind you, it's not the kids claiming it's too difficult at that age. It's the parents.
I'm a teacher. I've taught as young as 3 (and as old as 75) and my students could learn the song in about a month or two of classes. Some kids came to class knowing it because the parents taught them. And then you spend the next few months doing about 2-4 letters per week to build phonics, recognition, CVC words, and learning the individual letters that have exceptions (long vs short vowels, soft vs hard Cs&Gs, silent vowels, etc.) so that the run is just fun.
4 months. Half a school year for basically babies and they can have the alphabet mastered and be reading but the parents (and teachers) have to put in the work.
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u/bacon_cake Sep 02 '26
It makes it easier... It's a good thing.
My 2 year old knows it as:
ABCDEFG
HIJKL and M
NOP
QRS
TUV
WXYZ
It's not like they've changed the alphabet, it just stops kids getting stuck at that weird elemenopee run in the middle and helps them differentiate between the letters at an earlier age.
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u/I_Go_BrRrRrRrRr Sep 02 '26
Kinda ruins the whole "song" portion of the song
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u/bacon_cake Sep 02 '26
You can kind of make it fit the same tune at a stretch, the kids don't seem to care.
That said we're British so the latter portion doesn't rhyme anyway (zed).
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u/RawrRRitchie Sep 02 '26
Who is claiming that nonsense? The illiterate adults?
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u/DetectiveClownMD Sep 02 '26
Dude. They got rid of phonics and instead use sight words and tapping words out. I’m sure it does something but we ended up using phonics at home, our daughter learned to read words she didnt know much easier with phonics.
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u/Jafooki Sep 02 '26
They've finally realized how awful that was and are switching back to phonics, but the damage has already been done for millions of people
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u/My_guy_GuY Sep 02 '26
I learned with phonics and I was obsessed with reading by 3 years old, I would demolish any books I could get my hands on, by 5th grade I had a "college" reading level. Kids just 3-4 years below me where not taught with phonics and by the time I was in high school, the younger kids could not read shit. If a teacher gave them an assignment with a word they didn't recognize they where unable to sound out the word, unable to use context clues to guess the meaning, even unable to recognize parts of the word that may have been derived from other words they did know. If it wasn't already in their "sight reading memory" they would just skip straight over it. I also had classes with multiple kids who didn't know how to read an analog clock and would beg me to tell them the time during class when they weren't allowed to look at their phones.
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u/carcigenicate Sep 02 '26
How? The run sets it apart. It would be harder to memorize if the whole alphabet song was the same throughout.
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u/Romboteryx Sep 02 '26
That‘s amazingly dumb. That‘s not how humans work. There‘s a reason why all of the oldest oral tales in history are in metric or rhyme and were traditionally sung, because that‘s how they are remembered best
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u/Far-Fortune-8381 Sep 02 '26
thats what im saying, the people saying the song still works fine are completely missing the importance and benefit of the rhyme itself. its not an accident the original rhymes
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u/VioletMarzka Sep 02 '26
My baby sister says "I'm a lil p. Qrstuv~wx...y n z!" I can't unhear it lmao
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u/Timely_Abroad4518 Sep 02 '26
The song is just the alphabet??? If you forget the ABCs, then you’ve forgotten the song too, right?
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u/Tomsboll Sep 02 '26
I can recite the alphabet just fine, but i couldnt tell you whatever letter came after S for example without running it through my head. I can atleast start from the letter M so i dont have to run through it all.
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u/Palatablepancakes Sep 02 '26
Forget? Forget??? How can anyone forget the alphabet??? Never in my life would I have assumed people forget something so simple, ever. This is depressing.
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u/KerissaKenro Sep 02 '26
I used to work in my college library. I can’t tell you the number of times I would quietly sing it to myself when I was shelving books
Is it “N” or “M” that comes first. /sigh “A, B, C, D, E, F, G…”
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u/VeradilGaming Sep 02 '26
FFS it's not a joke, it's engagement bait. They say stupid shit to get people to comment and people like OP to open the comments and stay on the video to bump it up in the algorithm. Sharing it here with the company name fully visible as well
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u/CaptainT3ach Sep 02 '26
Reddit doesn't realize they're the joke by constantly falling for bait like this. Chatgpt might get stuff wrong, but it definitely knows the friggin alphabet.
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u/SlurryBender W0RK Sep 02 '26
It could also just be... a normal joke, instead of ragebait? Like they know ChatGPT sucks so they said "Oh lol that's the ChatGPT version of the alphabet"
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u/Purona Sep 02 '26
redditors arent aware of anything to be honest
theyll clown on chatgpt and turn around and believe the first headline that reinforces their opinion on something and comment with their full chest
AI gets something wrong" lol AI so useless giving wrong information people are so stupid" Headline about jeff bezos and water "hes so evil!"
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u/Informal_Rabbit_9796 Sep 02 '26
I (an atheist) pray that this is a joke
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u/_______Mia_______ Sep 02 '26
Two days in a row at work now I've had chatgpt referenced. One individual saying it told them they could do something. Another straight up saying "let me ask chatgpt"
It is genuinely disturbing
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u/Informal_Rabbit_9796 Sep 02 '26
We never really stood a chance I think
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u/_______Mia_______ Sep 02 '26
Yeah.. the inability of Individuals to think for themselves at this point is becoming deeply concerning.
I saw something referenced a few months ago that in this upcoming society, maybe even half a decade or decade from now, the ability to think critically will be an asset that is extremely desirable, and that seems so true with the route society is heading.
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u/Informal_Rabbit_9796 Sep 02 '26
We’ll be lucky if we will still exist until then.
It feels like critical thinking and especially media literacy is already something extremely rare4
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u/Longjumping-Net2602 Sep 02 '26
Oh my god yeah! My parents call it Chad and i genuinely got worried about my dad when he insinuated ChatGPT was a nicer partner than my mum. Luckily they experienced how horroble it is to be replaced with AI so i think its a little better but oh my god. Plus my mum always tells me to use AI in my uni assignments and gives out not only her private details like name and likeness but she does it for me too without my consent
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u/Ultima-Manji Sep 02 '26
I wanted to buy a new tv recently, for which I needed some specific video and audio ports due to work, but the info wasn't fully on the website so I decided to pop by the actual store the next day to get some more info from the employees.
Spent over half an hour actually waiting to be assigned a 'specialist', and when I asked him about those specific ports, he walked me over to their pc and (rather than, I dunno, pulling up their internal inventory or checking whatever documentation they surely must have have had) immediately plopped my question into google gemini. Which of course pulled up the store page I had looked up the previous day, and hallucinated an unrelated answer that wasn't even on it.
When I then kindly pointed out that that wasn't really what I was asking, and moved on to instead ask what the difference was between it and a similar TV next to it that costed 200 extra, that question was - again - plopped into gemini which again didn't give me anything fifteen minutes of comparing at home and looking up abbreviations wouldn't also have given me more accurately.
After a third and fourth time of the same (by this point I had broken new ground by suggesting such novel ways of finding information as requesting a booklet and asking "Can I just see the the back of the TV, please?" so I could physically count the amount of ports when they didn't have one, which he wasn't sure was even allowed), I ultimately just gave up on it, left a review about how this kind of customer service actively put me off of visiting the store or buying from them in the future, and went with a more expensive competitor because their specs were actually listed on the site.
I'm no stranger to getting less than ideal help by going to one of those places that pretends it's a mattress store and getting antsy responses the whole time because they didn't expect me to genuinely just want a mattress, or a highschooler working part time not really knowing how to handle customers and general inquiries yet, but if you're at the point where you're openly needing to ask AI how to do even the most basic tasks of your job, and don't see anything wrong with doing it right in front of me either, that's a major shift in mentality that I absolutely want no further part in. So I can only imagine how prevalent this kind of thing is when people aren't looking.
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u/Informal_Rabbit_9796 Sep 02 '26
I hate everything about this story because I think everyone had that experience at least once. The AI is just a new low and as I said in one of my other comments in this thread, I see my coworkers use it for rediculous shit all the time…
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u/Triktastic Sep 02 '26
Even if this instance is (I hope so) it's all too common now. Had seen my father ask chatgpt for basic centimetres conversion. The catch is he is a home builder and I saw him do this conversion.and harder ones, hundreds times. When I ask him why he told me he didn't want to bother thinking so offloaded it to chatgpt. We are fucked
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u/hechiiimakooo Sep 02 '26
not knowing the alphabet is one thing. going to chatgpt instead of google for literally anything is another thing. petition to call "common sense" "extremely rare sense" cause what the fuck?
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u/Intoxic8edOne Sep 02 '26
Have you used Google recently?
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u/hechiiimakooo Sep 02 '26
yes there's forced google ai right at the start but you can still scroll down for real website insights. can't say the same for chatgpt now can we?
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u/Intoxic8edOne Sep 02 '26
I mean technically yes, you can check the sources used.
But both options require the user to have some basically search literacy which clearly someone searching the ABCs isn't going to have.
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u/hechiiimakooo Sep 02 '26
you know what, hell yeah. guess i expected too much from someone who doesn't even remember or know the alphabet song lol.
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u/melsuesingle Sep 02 '26
You can also add “-ai” to your Google search. When you’re in an area with bad internet, it makes it a bit faster too, I’ve found.
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u/theshiningstarship Sep 02 '26
In the most respectful way possible, I wonder why this person is a cleaner.
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u/castorkrieg Sep 02 '26
The difference is 5 years a go a cleaner would have done it without any issues.
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u/loulan Sep 02 '26
Honestly I doubt ChatGPT told her that it was JLOMNP. It's not that stupid.
She probably was a dumbass on her own and blames it on ChatGPT.
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u/Pat-Funny-2817 Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
reinforcing the veiled message that some people are less, therfore they get "lesser" jobs.
none of that message is true. you take the job you can get, because you need money. you get a job primarely by opportunity, secondary by your ability to win the selection process, which entails many factors outside most anyones influence, then by your qualification.
your qualification is primarely driven by your opportunity.
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u/rocketkiddo7 Sep 02 '26
Assuming it's not ragebait, it's infuriating as fuck
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u/737Max-Impact Sep 02 '26
I would say it's almost certainly bait simply because it's such a stupidly trivial task that even a very early gen LLM shouldn't have problems with it.
ATP everyone should be aware that LLMs are in principle just predicting the next word based on how often that sequence appears in the training data, and the alphabet is probably one of the most common letter sequences you can possibly find. I'd say it's pretty much statistically impossible for it to mess that up.
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u/Creepslend Sep 02 '26
You're oversimplifying the way they're trained. Saying it's based on "how often that sequence appears in the training data" is making it sound like memorization when that's not what's really happening.
And judging from a lot of comments I see, I think this is a commun misconception. It seems like a lot of people genuinely think an LLM is only capable of copy-pasting its training data as is.
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u/rocketkiddo7 Sep 02 '26
Indeed, they're just probabilistic models, yet again a low probability of error, even if it's close to 0.00%, it isn't an absolute 0% chance of error. Having said that, it's either a legit mistake made by the software, or just pure baiting from the OP of the picture
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u/Saelethil Sep 02 '26
That was very clearly a joke about ChatGPT getting simple things wrong.
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u/Main-Tomatillo3825 Sep 02 '26
I love the people that don't get that it's a joke insulting the woman's intelligence. Some surreal shit
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u/Livelih00d Sep 02 '26
Idk if AI is making people stupider or it's just stupid people that use it the most
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u/CaterpillarJungleGym Sep 02 '26
Probably a bit of both. People that don't want to put thought into anything, and people who have no thought to put into it.
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u/81724369847698432716 Sep 02 '26
Man this is so horrible. Using chatgpt for the alphabet? My wife works for the registry office and so aside from weddings also does registry of births. Naming laws here are strickter than in the U.S. so at one time she told parent the name is possible but the spelling of the name is wrong and would need to be changed. The parent argued that thats how chatgpt spelled it, to which my wife said chatgpt is no source.
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u/IAmBLD Sep 02 '26
People are saying that it's a joke or rage bait and that she must surely seriously know the alphabet:
I had a math professor in college. I believe she was Greek, if that explains what I'm about to say. One day she assigned us a problem with 4 variables, W X Y Z. Part of the answer was that we had to list them in alphabetical order. To be clear, the 4 answers were independent and it really didn't matter which way we ordered them, but she wanted it that way.
Anyway she counts the entire class wrong on that question, for ordering them wrong. We all, of course, used the order I did above - W X Y Z. But she gets up in front of the class and explains it's actually, X Y Z W.
My main issue isn't really that she didn't know the goddamn alphabet (that's the only reason I brought her ethnicity up earlier, maybe she grew up learning things differently - another student had a theory about greek letters or something, but it's been so long I don't remember the details). No, my issue is that she didn't stop once to wonder why her entire class did the alphabet in the same "wrong" way and that maybe she was the one who was wrong.
But yeah anyway regardless, that was a college professor - not an English professor, but still, I could totally believe a cleaner would legit not know the alphabet too.
Or, alternatively, my old math professor was ALSO ragebaiting us. Given some other stuff she did that's also very likely.
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u/tickled_bollocks Sep 02 '26
Lower-case omega (last letter of the Greek alphabet) looks like a w. (Still a bizarre thing to do unless it was a joke, though, because there are heaps of differences between the two alphabets, not just letter ordering, and so there's no way she thought they were the same.)
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u/ass_bongos Sep 02 '26
It doesn't sound like this was the case, but sometimes if you're working in 4 dimensions it's conventional to use w as the 4th coordinate, since x-y-z are standard for three. But especially since she specifically asked for alphabetical, that probably wasn't it.
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u/MadJoeMak Sep 02 '26
I absolutely hate it when people just blindy use whatever AI spits out and dont use a single braincell at all
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u/TheBSQ Sep 02 '26
Before cell phones I had the phone numbers of all my friends and family & routinely called business contacts entirely memorized.
When I worked a retail job before scanners & we typed in SKUs by hand, I had the SKUs of all the most commonly purchased items memorized.
It’s crazy to think about how many 7-12 digit numbers my brain has memorized.
But once a tool comes along that makes that unnecessary, it’s kinda scary how quickly you stop bothering to know stuff.
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u/Tye595 Sep 02 '26
Not surprised at all.
People love using AI to do everything and think for them. It’s sad seeing people just go full lazy.
AI is a bad thing.
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u/friendlyfiend07 Sep 02 '26
This is what happens when you choose to stop using your brain. Use it or lose it applies to every single thing you know.
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u/Xsy Sep 02 '26
LMNOP is like, the best part of the song, how do you fuck that up.
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u/Sharp_Ad2526 Sep 02 '26
The damage America has done to global society as a whole is unquantifiable lmao
Don just press the big red button atp
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u/Excellent_Sweet7270 Sep 02 '26
Bruh if a machine cant do the alphabet correctly who programming these machines???
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u/Louis2645 Sep 02 '26
The “machine” isn’t programmed, it’s just fed an astronomical amount of data and then it does the equivalent of a text autocomplete but for whatever you ask it which is why it hallucinates random shit
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u/Shinigami_Athena Sep 02 '26
English might not be this person's first language.
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u/Mordisquitos Sep 02 '26
EnglishA Latin-alphabet language might not be this person's first language.FTFY.
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u/SLZRDmusic Sep 02 '26
There’s a decent amount of evidence of that and yet I had to scroll all the way down here to find a single person willing to bring it up amidst the superiority jerk going on in here.
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u/Shinigami_Athena Sep 02 '26
I was also looking for someone saying this. I think it's so easy to dunk on people when they get things wrong like that when most English speakers only know English, it's really a privilege to not have to learn another language. We see it a lot here in South Africa, where white English people will make fun of Afrikaans or black people for their accents but aren't fluent in any other language. It's silly.
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u/SLZRDmusic Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
Yeah that’s basically what’s going on here: unilinguals with English exceptionalism bias thinking everyone in the world has the English (LATIN) alphabet memorized.
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u/RaisinsPerDay Sep 02 '26
This is such an obvious joke to pander to anti-AI audience and instead that audience thinks it's pro-AI and is critical of them.
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u/daakin__ytb Sep 02 '26
People calling her stupid when it’s them that don’t get the joke is 50% hilarious and 50% sad
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u/Disastrous_Visit9319 Sep 02 '26
God ragebait doesn't even need to try anymore, idiots will believe anything
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u/Simon_Drake Sep 02 '26
The correct response would have been "Oops, that's embarrassing! I was so focused on lining them up neatly I wasn't paying attention to the alphabet. I wonder where the K is, probably on the floor."
Blaming ChatGPT is extremely dumb.
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u/Osteo_Sapien Sep 02 '26
The illiteracy in hispanic families is alarmingly high (not trying to be racist, I'm taking context from Casa Cleaning and Carillo LLC) and they're constantly being pushed AI as a fix.
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u/Pierce-613 Sep 02 '26
You do realize this post is a joke? The cleaning lady even said so on a later post asking people to stop harassing her business.
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u/Scary_Assistant5263 Sep 02 '26
I feel like soon people are gonna forget how to breathe, and ChatGPT will tell them to breathe through their ass
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u/Nonhofantasia1 Sep 02 '26
comments proving yet again reddit is an echochamber of people circlejerking
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u/B33rNuts Sep 02 '26
Hey ChatGPT, who should I vote for in the presidential election? We are going to be so fucked.