Be careful when you trust AI answers!

[Mario]

Just now an IMatch user contacted me via email and asked how to restore his database from Pack & Go.

He did not know the IMatch Help System (??) or that he can press <F1> in Pack & Go (or click on the Help button) to open it. He thought there was no documentation.

So he asked the DeepSeek AI (of all!) how to do it. And DeepSeek told him to create a new database in IMatch and then use the "Import Database" command.

And he contacted me because he could not find that command in IMatch...

[sinus]

Wow! 
He should really have found the IMatch-help.

Well, about AI, like you wrote, be careful to trust a AI.
But to be honest, I quite often ask KI (open-ai) about something special for the 3D-program Blender. 

And the answers are mostly very good. Very helpful. But not always, hence, true, be careful. 
BTW, I ask the AI, because the help from Blender ist not nearly so good like the help of IMatch. 
The IMatch -help is outstanding good. 

[voronwe]

Yes, be careful
Chat-GPT wanted to convince me last week that the current US-President is still Joe Biden.
(maybe I got the Chat-GPT from the better parallel universe)

It is quite helpful for finding out how to do things, but there are cases where it gives you wrong ideas - for example if you ask how to something in Adobe Acrobat, it often goes wrong. I think the main reason here is tha Adobe is changing the UI in nearly every version

[Mario]

Yes, be careful
Chat-GPT wanted to convince me last week that the current US-President is still Joe Biden.
(maybe I got the Chat-GPT from the better parallel universe)

This is normal. Most AI models have a Cutoff date, aka the end date of the training data used.
Which can be six months or even years back. The model does not know anything beyond that point, although some models now can search the internet for more up-to-date information.

When I ask Gemma 3, it tells me:

My cutoff date for knowledge is September 2021. This means I don't have information on events, discoveries, or changes that happened after that time.

Copilot has no cutoff date, apparently. And it knows who the current president is.