My AI assistant gave me a recipe for glue instead of glue removal

I was at my workshop in Tacoma trying to get old adhesive off a vintage table. I asked my new AI tool for a solvent mix, and it gave me a recipe to make glue. I lost about 45 minutes before I realized the mistake. On one side, this shows AI can still mess up basic context. On the other, maybe my prompt wasn't clear enough. Has anyone else had an AI give you a totally backwards answer to a simple job question?

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baker.betty20d ago

Was it one of those new assistant things?

olivia38020d ago

Yeah baker.betty, those new ones are the worst for this. They just grab keywords and spit out whatever. You said "glue" so it gave you a glue recipe. I've learned you have to spell out every single detail like you're talking to a kid. It's not smart, it's just guessing.