• bus_factor@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    It’s a lot simpler than that. =COPILOT() can only see cells provided in the second parameter, and the user didn’t provide one. It’s just giving you what a typical answer to “compute the sum of the numbers above” is.

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      2 hours ago

      In other words, they may as well have given it “make up a number”

      … though with all the hallucinations, it would probably return “elephant” intermittently