Had a wild week testing an AI tool that kept suggesting I add pineapples to every recipe

Last Tuesday I spent 4 hours with a meal planning AI that insisted my chili needed pineapple and my spaghetti sauce would be better with grilled pineapple on top so I finally asked it why and it said it was trained on Hawaiian pizza data and couldn't break the pattern, has anyone else run into an AI that just latches onto one weird thing like that?

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oscarc121mo ago

Just restart the AI session and tell it no pineapple from the start.

vera_lewis21mo ago

Honestly reading that whole thing about AI mirroring our stubborn habits just feels like a whole lot of overthinking. It's a pizza topping, not a deep human flaw. People act like an AI suggesting pineapple is some profound statement about society when really it's probably just pulling from a bunch of recipes where pineapple works. Also your uncle Bob putting cheddar on cereal is a personal choice not a reflection of humanity. Sometimes a glitch is just a glitch and we don't need to psychoanalyze a salad topping suggestion. Just restart the session and move on with your day.

elizabethmason1mo ago

Did a friend of mine try this and accidentally teach the AI that "no pineapple" meant "extra pineapple" because the AI took it as a challenge? @david_jones38 would probably call that a perfect example of mirroring human stubbornness. Some people just can't help pushing back when told not to do something.

david_jones381mo ago

and the wild part is this AI probably wasn't even wrong in its own weird logic because humans do the same thing all the time, I've seen people who put ranch dressing on literally everything no matter what dish it is and they don't even realize they're doing it until someone points it out. what if these AIs are just mirroring our own stubborn habits back at us and we don't recognize it because we're too busy laughing at the pineapple thing. like maybe the AI that only suggests adding cheese to salads is just a reflection of my uncle Bob who puts cheddar on his breakfast cereal.