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I Asked AI to Create Some Weird Top 10 Lists for Me
Including “10 Advantages of Going Shopping in the Nude” and “10 Reasons to Smear Yoghurt Over Your Own Face”
12 min readFeb 28, 2023
So, I gave Notion’s AI a series of prompts for ridiculous (and sometimes downright dangerous) top 10 lists. My aim was to see how it tried to make sense of bizarre requests. Here are some things I have learned from doing this:
- It tries its best to give a helpful, sensible answer, no matter how crazy the prompt.
- It doesn’t appear to understand what jokes are.
- It doesn’t know who Smillew Rahcuef or Susie Kearley are, and instead just makes random stuff up that could fit anyone.
All the sections in italics are the bits generated by the AI.
WARNING:
Please don’t take any of this seriously or follow any of the advice provided by the AI responses. I was deliberately trying to provoke it, and some of my prompts are intentionally evil.
10 Advantages of Going Shopping in the Nude
- No need to worry about what to wear — just grab your basket and go!
- Freedom of movement — no tight clothes to hold you back.