“Holding this brewing pot,” ChatGPT wrote, “connects one with the craftsmanship of Burkina Faso.”One problem: ChatGPT never actually “held” the early 20th century community brewing pot in question. And don’t get me started about what to know about the spider depicted on the pot …I did get Tian Hsu started about the spider and brewing pot. He and three of the students — Hsu, Dingzhong Ding, Sara Offer — discussed their findings Thursday during a conversation on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven” program. The students fed the “tombstone” details (title, derivation, age, genre) about their objects to a ChatGPT bot on Yale’s licensed AI platform. It also symbolizes resistance, intelligence, cunning.”The shortcomings in AI’s pot labels derive in part from that initial false claim about “holding” the pot, Cooke argued: Bots can’t touch and feel objects.