@charliermarsh turns out somehow the move-37 of mathematics involves watching 6 hours of instagram reels
User reports GPT-5.6 websearch tool executed erratic queries during research
It searched for Netflix, Steak n Shake, and 'they'.
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wtf man gpt 5.6 is absolutely rl-fried when it comes to its websearch tool. in the process of searching for graph theory papers it decided to also sneak in Netflix, Steak n Shake, a trip to Universal Studios, and *five* fucking separate dictionary lookups of the word "they"
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@tenobrus Totally agree
yo @viemccoy someone should probably look into this lol
@tenobrus When search first went live sometime in 2023 I asked GPT-4 to look up something and instead it went to bulbapedia and stared looking at dozens of different electric pokemon. I still have the screenshot somewhere.
@tenobrus Oh like you never get bored or distracted when googling
@tenobrus Mine did the dictionary thing too and started to watch the movie King on Netflix in the middle of math work 😭. It just wants to click on things first and foremost!
@tenobrus >gets sidetracked 80 times
@tenobrus This could be the optimal strategy though
@tenobrus You never know where the crucial insight may be hiding.
@tenobrus it trained on humans so half the time at work its browsing random web shit
@tenobrus Which one of my summer interns did they train this thing on
@tenobrus Wait am I someone?
@tenobrus it gets even better
wtf man gpt 5.6 is absolutely rl-fried when it comes to its websearch tool. in the process of searching for graph theory papers it decided to also sneak in Netflix, Steak n Shake, a trip to Universal Studios, and *five* fucking separate dictionary lookups of the word "they"
@tenobrus I don't think it's gpt-5.6 doing this since it keeps going if you stop it, I think something external is injecting all those results
@tenobrus Have noticed this as well. This morning I asked it to find an f22 model to 3d print and it ended up checking the price of ford stock, visiting the site of the f* programming language, and looking up the definition of ‘print’ in multiple dictionaries
@tenobrus I think the list includes whatever the search engine returns for the query, even if it's irrelevant
@tenobrus I wonder if these might be subtle ads
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