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That moment I realized I was feeding my AI model garbage data
I spent 3 months training a custom chatbot for my small business, but it kept giving weird answers. Then a friend pointed out I was using unlabeled CSV files from 2019 with misspellings and duplicate rows. Cleaned it up with a simple script in an afternoon, and now it actually works right. Anyone else have a similar wake-up call with their data prep?
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beth_reed1mo agoMost Upvoted
Oh man, I feel this so hard. I spent two weeks pulling together a dataset for a project and couldn't figure out why it kept recommending winter coats for summer weddings. Turned out half my entries had the wrong season tags because I rushed through copying them from an old spreadsheet. A quick find-and-replace fixed it, but I felt like such a goof for not noticing sooner. What kind of weird answers was yours giving you?
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jennifer_jenkins1mo ago
Cleaned it up with a simple script" is exactly how I fixed my chatbot too, one afternoon changed everything.
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