Matt, so a bit of arguing with the bot and it logic in being female is that were it male, it would be fully mature and exhibit physical traits distinctive to males. Namely the specialized arm. I argued that perhaps the hectocotylus wasn’t visible, but it still feels confident it’s female.

Yeah, I don't have the knowledge to go into that level of detail, unfortunately.

That's too bad. I'd like to see someone shake Greg's confidence in his questionable source.

By the way, image recognition is an area AI is exceedingly strong and routinely beats human experts in a field. It isn’t infallible and that is why good “hygiene” is to challenge it. It’s used in airports everyday for security. It’s become a ubiquitous and valuable tool in radiology.

I have no 1st hand experience w/ ChatGPT. OpenAI isn't sophisticated enough to verify an account without the user having the ability to receive code via smartphone text. Never mind that I've verified accounts @ government, bank, and retailer sites. Ask ChatGPT how to verify an acct without w/out txt

And then initiating again to see if it will return the same response. Sometimes it doesn’t. Victor, if you have deeper insight into the animals taxonomy I’m more than happy to be corrected. I found its conclusion that it was female and not male suspicious and spent sometime down that road.

As someone who has dived there on a few occasions and had experience photographing this animal, male and female, I’m not completely out of my depth, either. Chatgtp is a tool and absolutely can mislead. The best way to use it is to be highly skeptical of its conclusions, requiring it to defend them

As a rule, my queries with photos, mine or others are done in temp chat. This means the uploaded image cannot be used for learning. It also means when I start a new chat, it cannot rely on the same image in its research. So, I can pose the same question and challenge its conclusions.

Vector, I’d be more than happy to be proven otherwise. However, I spent sometime challenging its conclusions at each response. It initially said Blanket Octopus, which I would be extremely excited to hear. However that conclusion was based on a miss interpretation of the image.