Ask ChatGPT to estimate the carbs in your lunch. Now ask it again. And again. Five hundred times. You’d expect the same answer each time. It’s the same photo, the same model, the same question. But you won’t get the same answer. Not even close — and the differences are large enough to cause a
Waste of energy. It’s like asking a person to estimate a non-trivial angle. Either use a model trained for that task, or don’t bother.