I must remind myself not to humanise artificial intelligence, but it's hard not to when it's out there causing what at least one developer is calling "gaslight-driven development", where the AI pretends features exist until the developer feels forced to add it. As reported by 404 Media, this is exactly what happened to developers of the Soundslice app.
Soundslice is an app that lets you scan and digitise sheet music, but apparently ChatGPT had been telling some users to use a feature that didn't exist on the app. It was telling them to feed ASCII tabs—an informal way of noting guitar notes and chords—into the app, but the app didn't have tablature conversion functionality.
