@Anthro @rose As one of my occasional dunks on ChatGPT, I asked it for recommendations for a small telescope for a beginning amateur astronomer.

A couple of its “recommendations” were ok, but one of them was for a Celestron PowerSeeker.

This is a model that is so bad that there is an entire subreddit dedicated to wiping it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/dontbuyapowerseeker

And no, this isn’t a bunch of snobs, the astronomy equivalent of audiophiles, pouring scorn on mass-market brands. The PowerSeeker line really is terrible, not fit for purpose in any shape or form, in many ways worse than the cheap brands from the 80s and 90s that experienced observers warned newbies about back then.