finicky

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Two years ago, AI chatbots were too finicky and error-prone to be reliable and broadly useful to most people, says Ram Bala, an associate professor of AI at Santa Clara University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Restaurants have struggled this year with rising costs for ingredients such as beef, scarce labor and more finicky customers.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 18, 2025

Watchdogs also caution that the math to determine whether bioenergy projects sequester or release carbon is complicated and finicky.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

It isn't "finicky" like some, can be frozen and revived without trouble, and is unusually good at hosting foreign DNA.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

Ilse Wagner is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, but she’s extremely finicky and can spend hours moaning and groaning about something.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank