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Bing AI provides false Blender information, user finds workaround

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A user reported a negative experience with Microsoft Bing's AI search capabilities, finding that the AI provided incorrect and fabricated information regarding Blender's features. The user discovered that the AI suggested non-existent functions for converting sculpt masks to vertex colors, which turned out to be false. This led the user to find a manual workaround within Blender for texture masking. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential unreliability of AI search for specific technical queries.

RANK_REASON User complaint about AI hallucination on a specific software feature.

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Bing AI provides false Blender information, user finds workaround

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Yesterday I was searching if Blender can convert sculpt masks to vertex colors for texture masking. Couldn’t find it via Startpage, so I tried Bing. Its AI on t

    Yesterday I was searching if Blender can convert sculpt masks to vertex colors for texture masking. Couldn’t find it via Startpage, so I tried Bing. Its AI on top provided credible answers, all of which turned out to be total bullshit, referring to functions that don’t even exist…

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