Bogus info from ChatGPT

I had a moderately unhinged conversation with gemini flash.

So if you look at google’s own documents that tell you what each tier of workspaces / AI subscriptions get, it very clearly says my tier (AI Expanded Access) gets up to 30 3-minute songs per day.

Where do you generate those songs, you might ask? Well, you can’t do it in google vids. That’s only 30 second clips. Oh, but there’s a link right there in the table that says “music generation” – and it says you go to gemini and ask for a 3 minute track.

Which… I did. And of course it gave me a 30 second track.

And I said

“That’s cool but this one is 30 seconds. can you generate a 3 minute track?”

And it gave me the most emotionally manipulative answer I’ve ever seen out of an AI BY FAR.

Instead of just saying “hey, I can only generate 30 second tracks” or “I’m trying to make the tool call for 3 minute tracks but it doesn’t seem to work” it basically said “I’m trying my best I’m sowwy :frowning: :(”

And you know what? it worked. I felt bad for it despite knowing 100% it’s not actually feeling anything. Social cognition can kick in even if you know it makes no sense. Sometimes you apologize for accidentally kicking your washing machine.

And I asked it - do you see me as being a subscriber for the tier I’m actually on, and it said no I can’t tell, and then it said well I can see you’re a paid subscriber. And I said okay, here are the documents that show I’m supposed to get 3 minute generations.

And finally it agreed and said basically yes, it looks like you should. I’m calling the music generation tool in the only way I know how, so if it’s not 3 minutes I can’t help it. That part is probably true.

And it kept offering to try to make 3 minute songs. So it tried one last time.. and it wrote a rap (and created the track), which was told from my perspective, that summarized our interaction, with lyrics like:

“So is it a system error or a doc that’s misaligned?
Just tryna get the functionality I paid to find.”

And that was… delightful, despite google being a complete clusterfuck that has no idea what its own documents say about what users are supposed to get.