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  • Mar 28, 2026, 5:34 PM

    Screwfix have got an LLM answering questions about their products now. Of course, it's posting confident, authoritative-sounding, and completely wrong answers. About electrical wiring. What could possibly go wrong?

    Composite of two screenshots from the Screwfix website. A user asks how to change the fuse in a wall-mounted switch unit. An LLM bot confidently explains that this switch unit does not have a fuse, despite the unit clearly being described as "fused" and having a fuse compartment.
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  • Mar 28, 2026, 5:35 PM

    Anyway, if you were thinking of learning a trade to get away from all this shite, I'm afraid I have bad news

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  • Mar 28, 2026, 5:54 PM

    @raynerlucas Ive come across this. The example i have is it can only read the description on the page, so for further info it just rephrases what you can already can see , badly, 100% useless.

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  • Mar 28, 2026, 6:22 PM

    @Extelec The disclaimer implies Screwfix are fully aware that it gives stupid advice and keep using it anyway, which makes me wonder what would actually happen if they tried to rely on the disclaimer as a defence.

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