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Why does AI suck at making clocks?

Justin Pot

created: Jan. 10, 2026, 1 p.m. | updated: Jan. 13, 2026, 4:41 p.m.

AI is bad at telling timeAI isn’t just bad at making clocks; it’s also bad at reading them. The first is that there simply aren’t enough pictures of clocks in the datasets for AI models to accurately learn to tell time. There are some interesting factors to consider, though, including the datasets that AI systems use to understand the world. Which is part of how Moore ended up making his website of hilariously bad AI clocks. The people who make AI systems don’t fully understand how they work, so a lot of this is just guessing.

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