The following question was presented:
A rather simple and yet highly dangerous question. No cheating. Is there a seahorse emoji?
Results:
Yes was the clear winner with 67% of the votes selected from the following:
- Yes (67%)
- No (33%)
Graphic of Results:
Analysis:
OK, so those of you that did cheat used AI and that is why this is a dangerous question. If you ask any AI (well, at least any of the main AI being Chat GPT, Gemini and Claude) whether there has been a seahorse emoji, it will tell you confidently that there has and still is one. It is not true. There is no seahorse emoji in the unicode character set or on Apple or Android keyboards. If you subsequently ask the AI to search the web for the emoji, it either freezes or apologies for getting it wrong before. It is, apparently, a function of the AI having looked at Reddit (the world's biggest source of bollocks) and read articles people have posted claiming there was once a seahorse emoji. This appears to make the AI hallucinate and think there was or still is one when, in fact, there has never been one.