AI’s going really well, eh?

By | August 11, 2026

To illustrate how well AI is going, here’s a prime example of the confidently wrong phenomenon, a.k.a. mansplaining as a service…

I asked free Microsoft Copilot Chat: if I rename a shared file in Google Drive, does the name change for just me or everyone?

The correct answer is that in fact it does change it for everyone. To avoid that, you need to create a shortcut and rename the shortcut instead of the original shared document.

Copilot, on the other hand, said exactly the opposite, with fake, nonexistent sources.

Here’s the whole chat, if you’re curious: https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/kjSPhZo3y1LVt5vwrb4GR

That requires a Microsoft login to read, so if you can’t access it for whatever reason, I’ve captured a PDF of it as well:

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