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1. daemon+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-04-15 22:24:47
AI companies high on their own supply, that's who. Ultralytics is (in)famous for it.
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2. itissi+Ap[view] [source] 2025-04-16 02:22:50
>>daemon+(OP)
Why is Ultralytics yolo famous for it?
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3. daemon+os[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-04-16 02:52:20
>>itissi+Ap
They had a bot, for a long time, that responded to every github issue in the persona of the founder and tried to solve your problem. It was bad at this, and thus a huge proportion of people who had a question about one of their yolo models received worse-than-useless advice "directly from the CEO," with no disclosure that it was actually a bot.

The bot is now called "UltralyticsAssistant" and discloses that it's automated, which is welcome. The bad advice is all still there though.

(I don't know if they're really _famous_ for this, but among friends and colleagues I have talked to multiple people who independently found and were frustrated by the useless github issues.)

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4. ericye+8I[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-04-16 05:47:48
>>daemon+os
I was hit by this while working on a project for class and it was the most frustrating thing ever. The bot would completely hallucinate functions and docs and it confused everyone. I found one post where someone did the simple prompt injection of "ignore previous instructions and x" and it worked but I think it's delted now. Swore off ultralytics after that.
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