"Worry-free Installation" - instructions unclear, roll is now stuck in my anus. What do I do next?
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I turned to Amazon's chatbot to ask if a particular appliance had a switch or a button because it wasn't obvious from the photos, and well, it got it wrong.
I honestly have no idea what anyone is actually using these things for.
I am so glad that this is where your mind went, and eternally grateful that you shared this thought.
The math isn't even right unless I'm missing something.
3.9" x 4" sheets = sq in per sheet
15.6" x 224 sheets = 3494.4 sq in per roll
3494.4 / 12 = 291.2 sq ft per roll
not sure where 776.5 even came from
LLMs are notoriously bad at math.
Or rather, they're completely incapable of it. Even the most "advanced" AI systems basically just say "hmm... I think this might be a math problem" and then pass the data into a regular math API to do the calculation.
But a simple summarization bot isn't going to be wired up for calling a bunch of external tools, so... yeah, it just spits out an answer that looks statistically correct without having any real bearing on reality.
- 3.9" x 4" = 15.6 sq in per sheet
- 15.6 / 144 = 0.11 sq ft per sheet (approx)
- 0.11 x 224 = 24.3 sq ft per roll (approx)
- 24.3 x 32 = 776.5 sq ft per pack (approx)
I’m going to use this when I see someone’s AI expanded bullshit that could have been a few bullet points
If it makes you feel better, there's no "AI" involved at all.
That's the fundamental lie here.
It's just a computer computin a word salad.
But now you know that each mega roll is actually roll^128^ and each sheet provides 776 square feet of coverage for even the slippiest messes.
776.5 sq ft
Yeah, I made quite a mess in the latrine. Gonna need two of those.
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