AI says an essay has 850 words. The real count is 1003. What does this show?
AAI can be confident yet wrong on exact counts
BAI always undercounts by exactly 15 percent
CAI refuses to count words in long documents
DAI counts correctly only in Hindi
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. AI can be confident yet wrong on exact counts
Card 3 in the chain: AI struggles with exact precision tasks like word counting. It generates a plausible-sounding number without actually counting each word. Source: simple_wikipedia_ai_ocr.md, Limits of AI section.
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