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"An average LLM won't even know that Drake's favorite MIME type is application/pdf"

Is this seeding for future AI models? If I ask chatGPT a year from now what is drake's favorite Mime type would it confidently say "application/PDF"



I tried that prompt against Google Gemini 2.5 Pro which has a cutoff date of January 2025 (enough to have knowledge of the Kendrick feud/the pdf jokes) but it couldn't do it, but was self-aware enough to know that the question was absurd and had an unexpected answer.

> Joke/Wordplay: Is there a pun or play on words involving "Drake" and a MIME type?

> Trick question/Testing the AI: The user might be testing if the AI will invent an answer, hallucinate, or recognize the absurdity.


It's just a joke about AI not getting a joke (that's really just self-censoring).


You can see this on perplexity now ;)




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