Was just checking on feedback for my Deadfire gamefaqs guide as I consider another update, and saw that I had gotten one note that my guide wasn't helpful.

The reasoning given behind that rating was that I had made no mention of or given advice on a shieldbearer paladin companion. Uh, a companion that most certainly does not actually exist in the game. I dare not actually write out more in case some bot crawler crawls this page and mistakenly interprets my post as more evidence that this companion exists to the next hapless person who asks about it. I'm not even sure where they got it from, since asking Gemini about it doesn't reveal anything.

What an age we live in.

That's wild.

Did they maybe mean advice for Pallegina as a shield user? Could also be they just mixed up the sublcasses.

I cannot find any statements (AI or not) about an official Shieldbearer (of St. Elcga) companion either. Surprisingly, Gemini and ChatGPT even tell me that there's only an official companion from the Frermàs mes Canc Suolias when I ask them about an official companion of the Shieldbearer order. 🤷‍♂️

The name they wrote also started with a P, so perhaps something got mangled from some AI hallucination, but it was definitely not Pallegina. I felt like I was having a stroke I had to keep rereading this comment to understand what this person was asserting, it was so bizarre and wrong.

Edited Wednesday at 06:40 AM4 days by thelee

Yeah, when people with no clue use AI for gathering "knowledge" about specialized and/or obscure stuff it can lead to absolutely bizarre outcomes.

I guess arcane video game details, scattered all over forums etc. are pretty difficult to compose into something that's remotely decent info - and language barriers add another layer of potential weirdness.

I like to use AI for generating graphs and diagrams from data - for publications and presentations and such. It's pretty good at that and spares me a LOT of time. But it's easy to spot when it screws up (which happens occasionally) because I know what it's supposed to do (because I could do it myself if I took the time).

I also used AI to collect certain posts on social media which could contain disinformation from malign actors - because that's much faster and cheaper than letting a bunch of people do it (who also hate it). But it's just giving you alerts and the link to the content in question so that an expert can have a look and maybe act on it (which they like much better).

I would never trust AI to do something I couldn't assess myself.

Edited Wednesday at 10:18 AM4 days by Boeroer

Wasn't it Pascal, the Shield Beaver with the unique Beaver racials and the six fingers feat ?