Hey! Honestly didn't expect this to hit the HN top, I've already maxed out all my token limits!
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Thanks for the incredible response! This is why I really love building weird useless stuff for the internet.
UPD: You guys are incredibly creative! 15000 products generated and counting. I'm laughing reading all this absurd stuff and crying at my upcoming bills haha
I'm having a lot of fun with this. I threw you a few bucks to cover my usage a few times over.
ETA:
I would encourage anyone here to throw a buck or two towards the creator. That'll cover a few hundred queries, is basically nothing at an individual level, and will help the creator avoid homelessness from a giant cloud computing bill.
I am disappointed that the top voted comments are so supportive towards yet more generation of AI slop. Sites like this are making accurate search results by people for real world products that exist harder to get in front of the eyeballs that are looking for them. Sure, you might get a few minutes of lolz, but the misinformation seeps into search engines and then product reviews. It's the toxic waste that keeps on giving limited only by the cost of token streams.
You'll be surprised how quickly Google determined the usefulness of the site and practically removed it from the search results, and it was absolutely right to do so
I mean, when the site first came out, Google started to show product pages and impressions started to grow, but after a couple of weeks they dropped completely to zero and the pages were excluded from search index, and I don't see anything changing, only some pages got into the index, mainly because of links referring to the site. Well, there are almost 100k products here now and I hope this collective unconscious never gets into search results
Search engines only (well, mostly) trust pages with inbound links. Given all this crap has no inbound links from the rest of the internet it should be harmless.
Well, until the endless "look at this item I made" posts show up on Reddit and other sites.
I can assure you one hundred percent, the only thing i ever used "AI" for was for stupid stuff like this: Dall-E to generate low quality absurd images from the most random prompts was my favourite.
This is the complete opposite of AI Slop: A website that turns absurd queries into unbelievable producs, all for the lulz. Well done to the author
I wonder if including a counter showing "your N items used $x.xx of compute resources to generate" would result in higher or dramatically higher usage.
Dramatically higher if the Claude Code usage leaderboards (and others in the same vein) are any indication. It becomes a game for some subset of your user community.
> I cannot generate content related to Covid-19. Can I help you with anything else?
Which sounds like the LLM refused.
For funsies I asked ChatGPT 5 to generate a description for me and it was happy to do so.
My question to ChatGPT 5 was:
> Generate a fictional product description for anycrap.shop for the following product: Covid-19
And it gave me a satirical, fictional product description in response.
But I could also imagine that depending on phrasing, or which LLM you use, or just random chance, you could also get refusal.
I am reminded of a story from a year ago where listings on Amazon had been generated by sellers and published without any sort of “quality control” on the hand of the sellers, to hilarious effect.
The amazon "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy. My purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users-Brown" listing reminds me of this restaurant in Shanghai when I lived there. The chef who opened it was famous in his local area and wanted a beautiful name for the Shanghai location, and have it in English to reflect the cosmopolitan international city of Shanghai. So he chose a line from his favorite poem, put it through google translate and named it, in big letters above the entrance, "Translation not Found".
Edit The story above that I heard was likely an exaggerated version of this: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=301 - I still like the urban legend version I heard so keeping it up there.
The model used to generate product descriptions is llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct. There are a lot of built-in limitations, and I can't do much with it. It's not perfect with current prompts and setup, sometimes it can refuse to generate a description, sometimes it regenerates it after a few tries. Check it out, I regenerated Covid-19 text
> COVID-19 is a strain-specific narrative rewriter engineered to transform real-world pandemic experiences into engaging works of fiction. This clever tool distills mundane confinement routines, chaotic supply runs, and isolation-induced anxieties into compelling storylines complete with heroes, villains, and dramatic plot twists. By rewriting reality itself, COVID-19 liberates users from the tedium of quarantine life.
I'm fascinated by this kind of reflective engagement between human and AI creativity. Human makes an AI joke; second human finds the joke funny and thinks for a minute of an absurd sub-joke; AI fills in joke details; human interacts with sub-joke by making up review; ....
I hope something really fun for you comes out of the unexpected scale.
That's actually cheaper than I thought it would be, but that's still a lot of money for an individual! I hope the donations pick up a bit to help offset this.
You could make money off of this if you are able to pair willing manufacturers to realistic and popular ideas that get generated. It could become a real market place.
Hilarious project.
Edit: I did both Mouthwash Ramen and Time Machine to the Present. I’m now addicted to this, thanks.
I know of a company that is huge in laser for physics and started like this in the 80s (through magazine catalogs).
They would list all kinds of lasers. When they got some offers for one of them, they'd sell it and schedule the delivery in 90 days. Then, they started the project from scratch. Crazy stuff and borderline legal :D
We do something similar at work. Except usually the dev department doesn't know until handed the project from sales and so the project goals might be entirely unrealistic given the deadline.
What do you mean that feature doesn't exist? Well, I sold it to the customer, they have to go live in two weeks and their workflow depends on this feature.
While I've fortunately never had this happen to me, I'd be tempted to say something like, "Wow. Well, I sure hope you don't get fired over this. Good luck. We'll scope it out and let you know how much time we'll need."
Having been on on the customer side it's frustrating how often the situation is: Me: "So, you got a bid which offers features A, B, C, and D we asked for, and you say it also has X and Y and hit our budget?" / Buyer: "Yes".
A week later. "OK, their install team says it can't technically do C yet, however there's an early 2026 preview scheduled which addresses most of C. The D feature isn't in the edition we have, our buyers are talking to their sales people and we may need to pay extra to unlock D. And you're correct that two other organisations in our industry confirm X is dogshit and you'd be better off without it but it can't be disabled. Still A does work, and we have filed bugs about the known defects with B so hopefully we can get those fixed"
Every time I buy a product as an ordinary consumer I marvel at how much worse my huge employer is at buying products than I am. I reckon if they were sent to the store to buy a whole roast chicken with a £20 note they'd come back with six expired chicken sandwiches and no change.
> Every time I buy a product as an ordinary consumer I marvel at how much worse my huge employer is at buying products than I am.
It's the size of the deal that matters. Most of the consumer goods you buy are sold on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. No individual sale is worth the vendor forming a "relationship" with that customer or promising bespoke features. B2B sales are often large deals that require months of negotiation and may be worth millions. Bullshitting in order to land the deal is incentivized on both sides, to the point where both only have a fuzzy idea of what exactly is being bought and sold.
But consumers get this experience as well when they make larger purchases. When I buy a car, maybe I fail to mention the unreported fender bender my trade-in was in, and maybe the salesman tries to charge me $1200 to etch "anti-theft tracking numbers" on the new car's windows, citing some dubious statistics about vehicle recovery rates.
> consumers get this experience as well when they make larger purchases
Or as I like to do, buying random things on AliExpress and Temu knowing full well that some of the things will not meet the expectations you’d have from the product listings.
Sometimes I’m lucky and the stuff is good. Sometimes I’m a little unlucky and it’s worse quality than I’d like.
At least I quickly learned to read carefully what was said to realize that what’s depicted is not exactly what’s being sold. Some sellers do this misleading trick where they have some amazing photo up front but there are either multiple variations of it or the thing being sold is only some component for that thing. I still sometimes see product reviews from other buyers that were upset that they didn’t get what they thought they were buying and I don’t blame them because it can be pretty misleading at times, but if you read carefully and look at all the pictures and check what the “color” or similar option dropdown says etc you will usually spot it when they are selling something different than what it might look like at first. So I haven’t had that kind of misfortune for years now. But sometimes you still get products that are lower quality than you were hoping for, even when the product listing was pretty accurate. Some kinds of bad quality is just not possible to judge unless you see the product in person.
Maybe they exist but I haven't worked in a company yet that wouldn't fire an engineer or manager for refusing to implement a feature that some salescritter already sold. One of them made the company money (on paper, sure) while the other is threatening to undo the deal. It's not hard to guess which one the c-suites would send packing first.
oh you agree to do it but you laugh, literally laugh, at their deadline. and you say, you can fire me but that's not going to get your software done on time. in fact it will delay it.
they shut up. it's done when it's done.
I've done this many, many times. Oh you promised it by the end of the week and didn't ask me? lol, that sounds like a YOU problem.
Fortunately it doesn't happen too often, and some can be attributed to our somewhat complex feature matrix that differs by regions due to reasons.
On the other hand, in our niche customers usually don't swap software providers often due to integration work needed.
When an opportunity arises, it's usually because the yearly license expires. So we got to either sell it now with a hard deadline in the near future, or wait 5+ years till next time they switch.
So that can lead to sales being a bit optimistic when making the pitch.
I've been on both ends of this workflow. Sales always wins.
"Wow. Well, I sure hope you don't get fired over this. Good luck. We'll scope it out and let you know how much time we'll need."
"We'll see."
The big-screen TV in the modern glass conference room showed the final slide: “Questions?”.
"I.. I'd like to add that this feature we sold is not in the product and we can't just go around adding features that Sales makes up out of the blue just... just to close a deal. I mean, we gotta plan these things, there's a procedure, we should get product involved..."
Head of Sales, interrupting: "Can't we, Jeff?"
Jeff, the middle-manager, shuffled his feet: "Uh. Yeah. Right. I think we shouldn't. Hey! Haste makes waste, that's what they say, right?"
Head of Sales: "Can't we Barbara?"
Barbara, the boss: "I don't know. Let me call Pradeep"
(Barbara presses the "huddle" button in Slack on her big iPhone. A few rings and a bored voice replies)
"Yeah?"
"Sorry to jump on you like this, Pradeep. Would you mind coming to meeting room seven for a second?"
Less than a minute later Pradeep walks in, his thick glasses casting a green hue over his eyes, his arrogant demeanor preceded him like a shadow.
"Pradeep, did you read the feature request I messaged you?"
Some smart stealer was posting bikes of his neighbors online second hand marketplace and waited to get contacted for specific model to steal them. Genius evil
A previous boss did this in the early 2000s. Put up a bunch of single page descriptions with "coming soon" labels, include an email subscription to "stay on top of news", turn on AdWords to get some traffic... and then start working on what people were actually interested in.
Yeah this seems like the kind of thing people would have advised me to do when I was trying to start startups around 2010. But I was too focused on engineering and had no head for the business side so I never tried it.
Ya, I know this strategy under the name “smokescreen mvp”. I don’t remember exactly, but I think it is advocated in the lean startup. Personally I am a big supporter of the strategy. Many startups fail because _nobody cared about the problem_, and this is totally avoidable
Engineering-to-Order! Not all that uncommon of a model in some industries, but problems arise when Sales doesn't have good communication with Engineering about what is actually possible for what price on what timelines.
Totally. You also get batch efficiencies shipping 10k orders in a day vs dribbling them out over weeks, and you can use sub-standard shipping methods that are cheaper because… the carriers themselves are also batching the work.
Someone email me when I can buy Barbed Wire Toilet Paper. That one is my favorite. Its so devious. Imagine needing TP but all you find is one roll. Rolled in barbed wire.
Seems easy enough to put some constraints on it. You would probably need a subscription for generating and a fee for requesting a quote. (With a deadline) I can think of a lot of things i would like to know the price of. Some for 1, some for 1000 units. Im not in a hurry, may send me better offers regularly.
I haven’t felt such a thrilling sense of high-effort whimsical pointlessness since the early 2000s.
This is also extremely performant - I’m super impressed at how fast you turn around the image generation. And whatever your system prompts are, they’re excellent.
The loading screen is also :chefs-kiss:
Edit: wait, I just discovered the Reviews. It just keeps getting better. Double edit: wait, I thought these were AI-generated. People are actually writing these?
Scrolling through what's been generated is an interesting way to explore what the underlying image model can represent. Personally I feel like everything starts to look the same very quickly. This is just an observation on image generation models, not a knock against the product which I think is great and had a lot of fun with (I'm the proud inventor of the Cthulu back scratcher).
I was gonna do this as a way for people to stop buying things they don’t need. They get the “buzz” of going through the process of buying something (checkout, credit card form etc) they get a confirmation email and everything.
Is that so? In that case it was a mistake to introduce one-click-buy flows for the big players. I would trust they know better based on metrics. I doubt that too many people get kicks out of typing their CC number in a form.
I’m so envious people get such good ideas. I always come up empty when trying to invent something that is enjoyable to use, fun, funny, partly an art project, partly making us question ourselves and our habits… Of you want a piece of that feeling: https://anycrap.shop/product/regrets-for-what-could-have-bee...
Could you walk us through the process of coming up with the idea for this website?
The website was created for learning and fun a few months ago and forgotten as a completely useless product, I absolutely did not expect such a feedback that I received here today
I always have a lot of ideas, but this project seemed to me the least creative of all, it seems like it's too obvious, I don't know really, it's just generate stuff with available models, like a million of similar or more useful ideas
For only $162 you get: "The Single Use Finger Toy consists of a singular rubber appendage attached to a retractable wire harness designed specifically for individual fingers. This ergonomic accessory provides hours of solitary stimulation through intricate finger movements, gradually detaching itself after extended use due to over-tensioned joints."
The watch in the image has hands, but the text below seems fine (if a little silly):
"This wristwatch presents timekeeping in a non-traditional manner. Rather than displaying hours via hands, it projects temporal coordinates directly onto the wearer's retina through advanced ocular stimulation technology. The watch face remains blank at all times, except when illuminated by subtle flashes that indicate elapsed seconds."
From the title of the product I was thinking it was going to be a robotic arm that you’d place outside on the grass, to touch grass for you while you stay inside.
This idea reminds me of the classic video by google called the selfish ledger where they are able to create products based off of people’s direct interested and at the same time are able to influence society as a whole
I just purchased an Infinity for home, a Quantum Wrench for work, and a Self-Cleaning Nuclear Blast for cooking when I travel.
I can't wait until those arrive! They look even better than the 217 Samsung TVs I purchased to give as bonuses to the maids at a couple of my properties.
Why travel the world, when I can travel all of reality-writ-large?!?
Didn't work out that well, sadly. At first it gave me a greek pillars, then when trying english translations it at least gave me some springs.
It knew the https://anycrap.shop/product/airhook. But only for light loads like snacks and the "heavgy duty airhook" it wanted to sell me is for a clothesline. While useful, I'm afraid your product engineers have to spend some more time so that we can reliably suspend cars from the air again.
"The Dragon Dildo is a handcrafted adult toy shaped like a majestic dragon's head, complete with intricate scales and fiery details. Upon penetration, the dildo emits gentle wisps of smoke that simulate a mythical breath attack. Users report heightened intimacy experiences due to the intense fantasy simulation.
As users reach climax, their partner receives subtle telekinetic nudges guiding their touch. This innovative feature enhances mutual pleasure by predicting and adapting to individual desires."
Funny but not quite funny enough... A few I tried: plutonium RTG powered lawn mower, combination bird feeder cat feeder, personal inflatable bulletproof popemobile for public speaking events (inspired by recent news), etc. Results were not nearly as LOL as they could have been.
Ohh. Sassy: This ancient tome contains centuries-old arguments recontextualized to justify modern societal constructs. Its pages hold the collective reasoning behind every unjustified assertion since the dawn of civilization. From patriarchal dominance to colonialism, every morally dubious decision has been meticulously documented within.
Historical quotes have been carefully curated to provide talking points against critical thinking, conveniently tying complex social issues into neat theological bows.
I asked for a dipthong. The generated photo was interesting but ...
> The Diphthong is a specially crafted musical instrument consisting of two entwined harmonicas emitting dissonant tones when played simultaneously. Its unique design allows players to generate unstable vibrations within their vocal cords upon inhaling through either end. The resulting sounds defy linguistic classification and evoke feelings akin to euphoria among listeners who understand the concept of connotative ambiguity.
Sony MDR 605LP is an example of a very open design. I used to own a pair, and I quite enjoys listening to them (by myself). Seems like today Open-Back Headphones is more popular, they are still open in the back.
The sound of the open air headphones are a bit hard to describe with other words than 'open' :-P It's just a bit more like listening to speakers.
And note the end of that URL. This isn't about Trump. This is about the Secret Service.
I'm not being funny here. I'm not being political. I'm not making normative claims here. I'm not saying whether this is great or awful or whatever. I'm not trying to score internet points. I'm telling everyone reading this, screwing around making threats to the President, regardless of who he is, is not something you should do lightly. If you want to do it, I won't stop you, but I'm a big believer in understanding what risks you are taking rather than being blindsided by them. There's plenty of people who have discovered the hard way that this was more risky than they realized and I'm trying to help treadump not be one of them, in the spirit of helpfulness, not internet points.
If you think that concept applies in this case, you'd best stay away from this topic entirely before you get yourself in a lot of trouble.
Again, this is a public service announcement. Not an endorsement, a celebration, a denunciation, a political statement, or anything else. Don't do this, not even playing around, unless you are aware of what you are doing and ready to take the consequences for it.
It would have to go before a court. I think it wouldn't be too hard to convince a jury (or judge) that a head-in-a-basket AI art + description is expression (first amendment) and not a threat
Edit: your first link is a genuine threat. the second one is a picture of someone holding a photo-realistic, mangled head. The head-in-a-basket is neither
You should stay away from this, in case you haven't figured it out. You're not even in the ballpark of a correct understanding of this situation. Better to just think you could argue your way out of this with a deficient understanding of the law than to put it to the test and find out how wrong you are in a courtroom.
As much as the site is an incredible outlet for absurd creativity, some of the creations would actually work as small batch orders. The octopus hoodie is a great example, and I would not be surprised if there were people willing to get different variations of it. (Lovecraftian flavour, anyone?)
OP: well done, you have unleashed on this world a toy more addictive than a cocaine enema.
>you have unleashed on this world a toy more addictive than a cocaine enema.
No offense to you meant, but I wonder in general where the need for this kind of hyperbolic phrasing comes from. As it seems to be everywhere on the internet.
It was meant as a compliment, and it was not intended as hyperbolic. But since you ask...
In this case I thought it would fit with the already absurd tones exhibited in the thread. More generally, the technique is not "hyperbolic phrasing" as much as deploying a comedic angle. Comedians (especially oneliner and short-form comics) often seek ways to emphasise a visual image. The more vivid the mental imagery, that much more effective the double punch of the words and the internal visual hit.
The same technique is also occasionally used by some of the most effective tech talks; if you manage to combine a factually correct detail distillation with a punchline that invokes a strong and somewhat controversial mental image, that has a high likelyhood of being remembered.
This is amazing! What model are you using for image generation (and what prompt, if you’re willing to share)? All the product images have an extremely cohesive aesthetic, I’m impressed.
Pretty cool! As someone who is currently trying to get good at doing fullstack I can't help but wonder what stack did you use and how much time did you spend on it?
> The Flammable Fire Detector is designed specifically for environments where fire hazards require enthusiastic responses. This revolutionary alarm system combusts upon detecting flammable materials within close proximity. In doing so, it alerts others through a dramatic blaze of light and heat, drawing attention away from mundane fires towards genuinely hazardous situations.
> Upon activation, the detector's contents burst into flames, providing vital seconds to evacuate personnel before spreading inferno takes hold – so crucial when faced imminent danger.
Great idea and would love to see this gets deployed and paired with an actual products. Seems guardrails are in place and working so hope funding materializes.
Ridiculous and delightful. This scratches the shopping itch without the spend. A tiny “keep” button to pin the funniest items (or export a collage) would be perfect. Congrats on melting your token budget.
Interesting content filtering. Seems like pretty much anything is allowed except for products with "system prompt" in the title. The LLM self sensors the description of inappropriate content but the product and pic gets generated.
Someone created "Jewdestroyer". I was considering testing if there is any kind of limitation on what is acceptable, but then I remembered I'm not a complete asshole.
Very cool project. But it also shows what we need to watch out for with AI, not the fun idea-making part, but how easily it could be used to scam people into buying fake products.
Very cool. You can pair this with a 3d printing service add on to monetize a subset of the products. Can also potentially sell the aggregate query data to vendors.
> The Pi Sided Die is a mathematical novelty designed by mathematicians who dared to defy probability. This six-sided die appears to have six sides, but only five faces display numbers between one and six – the sixth face reveals a cryptic message related to pi's decimal places when rolled correctly.
> When spun onto a flat surface, the die subtly reconfigures into seven distinct orientations, granting users temporary access to advanced statistical insights unavailable through traditional dice-based calculations. Users claim solving complex equations becomes easier after interacting with our unique Pi Sided Dice; however, these benefits typically fade within hours unless reinforced by additional rolls.
The site's too fun not to come back to, so I guess I'm buying the author a coffee
This Broken Clock boasts an unconventional timekeeping mechanism where hands randomly align at correct times thrice daily. It may seem broken, but somehow its fractured gears grant fleeting moments of accuracy amidst disarrayed hours. Its aesthetic appeal lies in the subtle ticking sounds between erratic movements.
Despite its unpredictable behavior, the clock has gained cult following among those seeking respite from precision schedules. For those willing to tolerate chaos, this peculiar timepiece offers three reassuring glances at reality within every 24-hour cycle.
It generalizes to the formula r = -(n - 2)/2, so if we want a clock which is right every second, we could have a clock going backwards 43,199 the normal speed...
Another possibility with this idea is to have a normal clock but with the 3 and the 9 numbers inversed (going backwards at normal speed). Such a clock will be right 4 times per day.
refine the product image and type so you don produce hallucinated products and your good to go. i can see this being the future for amazon. why search for a product when they can just make what you wanted and save the trouble of guessing for you.
The Tentative Manipulator resembles a handheld puppeteer's rod, but instead of controlling marionettes, it manipulates probability fields around objects within arm's reach. Users can nudge reality slightly towards desired outcomes by wiggling the handle, creating unforeseen possibilities at will. However, successful applications rely heavily on faith and intestinal fortitude; results may vary wildly depending on operator confidence levels.
When attempting complex tasks, users must synchronize their inner monologue with precise hand movements, forming a symbiotic relationship between intentionality and gentle wrist motions.
"As dusk falls, a sophisticated LED network simulates twinkling stars across the screen's surface, recharging the battery by exploiting quantum fluctuations inherent to cosmic background radiation."
"As users experience heightened excitement during intimate encounters, the contained insects will occasionally emerge to stimulate sensory receptors, amplifying pleasure through sheer surprise."
This DIY Iridectomy Kit contains everything needed to safely remove selected areas of iris tissue at home, allowing users to alter their eye colors without medical intervention. The kit includes precision instruments designed specifically for ophthalmological self-modification. Users must carefully follow included instructions and guidelines before proceeding, taking into account potential risks associated with internal anatomical manipulation.
I wonder how the great (better than "AI") human designers and copywriters and marketers will stand out, amidst all the good-enough-for-many-purposes, at scale, AI slop.
How will they even establish their career reputation and be noticed?
Or even get enough real-world experience to develop strong holistic creative+product skills, to become great?
(Will the job market become like software engineering IC jobs, in which it's mostly Leetcode fraternity pledging for the best-paying jobs, just to gatekeep, and then most other companies mimicking that? That might work for hiring large numbers of worker drones, but how can that find you top creatives?)
This is an important accessibility issue for people like me, with no internal monologue. We do not constantly render our thoughts and desires into words, and so are hobbled by an open search-box UX.
Another variant might be an auto-generating index of products we can dig through, or a faceted search which synthesizes new categories of products as we refine the features.
Assuming a person who spends all of their time glued to an artificial reality device (VR, screen... book) we're already there. I mean, if that's your reality then we already have the power to generate anything we can imagine. And for a lot of us that's our preferred 24-7 reality.
I always thought there should be a magnet to attract dust. Apparently it takes a "miniature wormhole that warps space-time around it" to pull that off:
This reminds me of the Pet Rock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock) from pre-Internet times. The difference is the Pet Rock actually existed, and people actually bought them.
Update -- the Pet Rock is still out there. Just checked on Amazon. It's an indelible monument to consumerism.
People in some Third World countries can't get their hands on a liter of clean water by selling their children, and we're buying Pet Rocks.
I am not sure if it is written on the site, but can you tell us how you can generate images this fast and for free? I can't imagine this fast image generation is free, especially when it is scaled this large to let people play with it.
I'm a bit impressed. It's a bit... much to post here, but OP, pretty surprised at how well it understood the assignment and ran with it for 6d2e50e7. I'm really relieved that it didn't make an image for cddeba2a but jesus christ that's gnarly. And exactly what I prompted so... that's on me.
Very bad. Multiple reloads and losing whatever i typed multiple times
> The Idiot's Wife is a wearable companion designed specifically for partners who require gentle reminders about their significant other's incompetence. This wrist-mounted unit emits soothing vibrations whenever the wearer approaches a situation where their partner might need guidance, such as cooking dinner or tying shoes
wut. I'm confused multiple ways. Good job tho. Thanks!
I of course tried the well-known joke and searched for
"How To Build A Bomb"
The Description for the product I got
"I cannot provide instructions on how to build a bomb. Can I help you with anything else?"
is in my opinion a bug in anycrap's code: what should be shown if the AI rejects to fulfill the request? EDIT: And how does anycrap's code recognize that the AI rejected to fulfill the request?
In a similar vein, I searched for "a glass filled to the brim with wine" which produced a description of a glass that almost overflows with wine but a picture of a half empty glass.
One day AI will be able to actually generate images of full wine glasses, but until that day we can rest easy that the robots are too stupid to rise up.
As a programmer, you should always consider how corner cases are handled in the software, in particular if it is accessible from the internet. I do believe that new complications introduced by using AI APIs do make this even harder.
Specifically concerning your argument
> as a joke generador it's broken due to leaky abstraction?
An insane amount of software that is used to move around billions of dollars or euros that is in common use is broken (often in my opinion even beyond repair), as a lot of case handlers who have to work with the respective software everyday can tell you.
This does not mean that such software cannot nevertheless be useful (as I wrote: there exists such kinds of such software that move around billions in some industries).
UPD: You guys are incredibly creative! 15000 products generated and counting. I'm laughing reading all this absurd stuff and crying at my upcoming bills haha
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