[busyant]

> what the user wants rather than what they requested.

Amusing anecdote regarding this issue.

  - I teach an introductory online chemistry class. 
  - If the students are determined enough, they can/do cheat on their quizzes.
  - In one of my quizzes, I give the students a formula for a pretend material and ask them to compute its molar mass.
  - If you perform the calculation, the molar mass works out to something like 108 grams / mole.
  - If you try to Google the answer, Google is smart enough to know that my compound is unstable. 
  - Instead, Google provides the molar mass for a _related_ material (86 grams / mole)
  - Each semester, I find a handful of students who dutifully tell me the answer is 86 g / mole.

[DenisM]

Magnificent.

Reminds me of my metal work craft classes in school. We were making our own wrenches from scratch, and that requires a bit of geometry and drafting to make the blueprint (and the template). A couple of guys decided to cheat by pressing an existing wrench against the paper and using a pencil to copy the shape. Sounds like fine idea in theory, but the result is obviously fake, and also distorted enough to be unusable (pencil-surface angle will and pencil thickness will not let you have exact measurements, and inability to maintain the stable angle distorts the shape). Didn’t end well for them, got nearly kicked out.