ChatGPT failures make for hilarious content, thanks to Husk IRL

I'm obsessed with YouTuber Husk IRL's infuriatingly hilarious conversations with ChatGPT. If you need a laugh (and who doesn't, nowadays?), you should watch some of his videos on your next lunch break. Last year, Grant St. Clair highlighted Husk's experiments to get ChatGPT to help him out in stressful or dangerous situations like being pulled over by the police, being swallowed by a whale, or having a tree fall on him. To nobody's surprise, ChatGPT failed miserably at offering anything even remotely useful.

I'm happy to report that Husk has kept the bit going, and has been testing to see if ChatGPT is at least more competent with small tasks that, by now, should be super easy for an AI agent. Spoiler alert: ChatGPT is just as bad at simple tasks like spelling, translating words, and counting as it is with anything more complicated. For instance, in this video, Husk tries to get three different AI voice assistants to collaborate and count to one hundred. They have no idea what they're doing, they repeat themselves ad nauseum, and they're always just on the verge of starting to count, but never actually do. But they sure sound chipper as they fail! And here, Husk tries to get the AI assistant to translate some simple words into Spanish. Again, the AI fails miserably, and Husk finds himself in an endless loop where the AI just repeats what he's saying. Finally, here's Husk trying to get the AI assistant to spell strawberry. That goes just about as well as the other tasks he's tried, which is to say the AI assistant is utterly clueless.

Lucky for us, though, the worse ChatGPT is — and, each time, it seems to devolve further the longer Husk talks to it — the more hilarious the encounters become. And Husk's awkward, deadpan delivery pushes the hilarity completely over the edge — I truly guffaw when I watch his videos. I hope you enjoy them, too!