I asked MS Copilot:
It returned a list of products. The first 7 were sensible choices, including my own table planning app, PerfectTablePlan. But there were a couple in the list that I didn’t recognise:
I clicked through to the web page that Copilot was using as a reference for these products (which I don’t want to link to):
The 10 ‘best table planning software’ references comprises:
- A website that sells physical tables (the ‘Editor’s pick’).
- A ‘production control and scene management’ product.
- A ‘retail ordering platform’ product.
- A ‘church management system’ product.
- 5 generic diagramming packages.
I wouldn’t classify any of them as ‘table planning software’. So much for ‘expertly reviewed’.
It looks like the worst kind of AI slop. I have no idea why Copilot would use it as an authoitative source. I doubt if ‘Emily Watson’ and ‘James Whitmore’ even exist.
Copilot at least managed to feign some grovelling repentance, when confronted.
But the real villains of this piece are whoever is behind this website. They are taking a giant shit on our collective commons. Shame on them.
Successful Software 
What did you expect, using AI? Every website is tested as an expert. I’m a little surprised you didn’t ask if write a table app for you. Now that would have been truly scary 😂
“i used a babbling llm that spits out gibberish and lies and now i’m mad it gave me gibberish”
i’m sorry to be so blunt but what did you expect?
and before anyone gets extra burnt on what i said and accuses me of being a luddite just know that i’m not against ai; it’s valuable to sift through large amounts of data and when used to like… -actually- compute stuff. from x-rays and MRI scans to detect cancer to filtering the data we get from various satellites and space telescopes; it still has lots of use cases
but talking is not one of them.