Tell HN: ChatGPT can't show you a 5.25" floppy disk

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Challenge: Come up with a query that makes it draw something resembling a 5.25" floppy, that is, without the metal shield and hub that is present on the 3.5" disks.

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Oh wow. That's bad. I tried it, I tried it really, but I failed. Some funny results where a disc with the metal shield on the other side, while the opening was across it and so on. But it didn't want to let go of that metal shield and all discs looked like those 3.5" ones.

But at least it knows how audio cassette look(ed) like. It even made one with it's tape coming out, a pencil ready to get some serious work done, just the magnets laying around (neatly positioned around the audio cassette) kinda felt wrong there. ^_^

I was so sure I could make it give me the right image, but I was wrong! Even demanding the disk be for Apple IIc and/or describing the softer shell wouldn’t work. It gives some strange windows vaporware when I asked to show how to load that (incorrect) disk into an Apple IIc.

Ok, it probably can't draw a proper desk telephone, princess phone, telegraph key, or 4 way lug wrench with cheater bar either.

Most kids have zero idea how to work a rotary dial telephone, what an 8" floppy disk, or paper tape are. It's trained on newer material to try to be relevant to questions about new things. This is to be expected.

What about LaserDisc and CD-ROM?

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