ChatGPT confuses netstat and ping commands for asteroids in a star system
anderssandberg · x · 2026-09-10
Anders Sandberg shares a ChatGPT slip: the model treated Unix commands netstat and ping as two asteroids sharing an orbit. Rather than complain, he embraced it — canonizing 'Ping' as a horseshoe-orbit body around a gas giant in his space TRPG setting.
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