Wasting my Tokens

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Authors: foxglove
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Abstract

I seem to have spent most of 2026 so far prompting Gemini to do the right thing with my Victorian plays. As previously mentioned, our working relationship got off to a rocky start, largely due to my unrealistic expectations of its capacity, and its reluctance to explain (or even admit to) the implications of its capacity limitations. A lot of time was wasted in prompts requesting it to process the whole of a PDF file, which received glowingly positive and entirely mendacious responses, along...

Fields of Study & Subjects

Artificial Intelligence Applications Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Publication details

Journal / source
Hypotheses (OpenEdition)
Publication date
28 January 2026