Tell HN: ChatGPT can't show you a 5.25" floppy disk

Challenge: Come up with a query that makes it draw something resembling a 5.25" floppy, that is, without the metal shield and hub that is present on the 3.5" disks.

3 points

dusted

3 days ago


3 comments

mikewarot 13 hours ago

Ok, it probably can't draw a proper desk telephone, princess phone, telegraph key, or 4 way lug wrench with cheater bar either.

Most kids have zero idea how to work a rotary dial telephone, what an 8" floppy disk, or paper tape are. It's trained on newer material to try to be relevant to questions about new things. This is to be expected.

SunlitCat 3 days ago

Oh wow. That's bad. I tried it, I tried it really, but I failed. Some funny results where a disc with the metal shield on the other side, while the opening was across it and so on. But it didn't want to let go of that metal shield and all discs looked like those 3.5" ones.

But at least it knows how audio cassette look(ed) like. It even made one with it's tape coming out, a pencil ready to get some serious work done, just the magnets laying around (neatly positioned around the audio cassette) kinda felt wrong there. ^_^

westurner 3 days ago

What about LaserDisc and CD-ROM?