[Bartweiss]

> be 100% wrong

This really is quite impressive. It's rare for humans to do worse than random guessing on tasks, and they almost never do much worse. There's something almost charming about the ability of AI to put real effort into actively avoiding correct answers.

[pixl97]

Really it sounds like an error somewhere else, rather than the AI system. More like the ID for cat and dog were switched.

[Bartweiss]

If this is the Google Photos folder system, I suspect the problem was that the IDs and the bucketing were de-linked.

Photos creates folders for you based on identified themes, and then adds new photos to them as they're taken. I haven't checked, but I'm guessing it doesn't relabel existing buckets to avoid causing confusion. And I'm not sure whether bucketing is done by assessing theme or similarity to other photos in a folder. If it's the latter, the system could have hit the confidence threshold to make a Dog folder out of a few images, then ceaselessly dumped similar-looking photos (i.e. cats) into that bucket.