A map of Northern Ireland, as horked up by ChatGPT. (See alt text for the true horror.)
Do not trust ChatGPT to do your geography homework!
That is all.
A map of Northern Ireland, as horked up by ChatGPT. (See alt text for the true horror.)
Do not trust ChatGPT to do your geography homework!
That is all.
@tedmielczarek @fskornia Latest elsenet is that RFK Jr. used an LLM to write a whole chunk of healthcare policy claiming vaccines are poisonous and there's a childrens' health crisis caused by (waves hands).
We're all going to die to pad out Sam Altman's bank account.
I have never seen a more clear example of how ChatGPT & co are, at root, a distillation of
a short-attention-span American teenager bullshitting his way through a college undergrad presentation
Philomena Cunk would *never*
@cstross If you think that's bad try asking for something like the structural formula of some simple organic compound. Somebody tried glucose the other day, and the result was... wrong.
Ah yes and a map of Italy in which the smallest regions were expanded to include their neighbours and only 4 regions had the right name although of course the area was completely wrong.
And according to ChatGPT Italy has annexed Corsica.
@geoglyphentropy @cstross @Uilebheist Former chemist here.
The atom counts in C6H12O6 are correct: each glucose molecule contains six carbon atoms, 12 hydrogen atoms, etc.
This is likely how you'd encounter it in a Chemistry 101 level of class, where you're mostly dealing with fairly simple reactions, like "how much carbon dioxide [CO2] and water [H2O] do you get when you burn glucose?" For reactions like those, just knowing the atom counts is fine.
For more specific reactions (like ones affecting just one part of the glucose molecule), or for visualizing how the atoms are connected, a more detailed representation is required. See, e.g. the structural diagrams in the Wikipedia article for glucose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose .
Those are the ones that ChatGPT and similar applications get totally, hilariously wrong a lot of the time.
@geoglyphentropy @cstross Still better than the google one, which put a big "ITALY" where Algeria is in the normal maps. And moved Milan where Naples is.
Oh and drew a huge lake inside the former Yougoslavia, occupying most of what should have been land.
As for glucose... it managed to draw penta- and exa-valent Carbon atoms. Not sure where it hallucinated that.
(Can find where people posted about that here and link if one wants to watch the horror)
@Uilebheist @geoglyphentropy @cstross
You might be interested to commission Professor Klapötke at University of Munich if they can actually synthesize that molecule
They already made C2N14
(but you should only whisper and dont switch on the light in the room, the atoms in these molecules are easy to scare and tend to flee away with high velocity)
@Uilebheist @geoglyphentropy @cstross > As for glucose... it managed to draw penta- and exa-valent Carbon atoms. Not sure where it hallucinated that.
From ingesting scans of bad Chem 101 homework problem answers? Or bad movie graphics from people trying to "make it science-y"? https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/08/27/common-mistakes-pentavalent-carbon/
@Uilebheist This is courtesy of Gemini, which seems to be especially hobbled in the realm of scientific fact.
Picture 1: Glucose. *Eight* carbons, and I don't even know what TF is going on with the hydrogens and oxygens. Many of the oxygens appear to be hexavalent, which goes beyond the occasional pentavalent carbon you see from Intro Organic students every so often.
Picture 2: Tweak prompt to remind Gemini of the correct number of atoms. Result: *the exact same chemically cursed image as before*.
Picture 3: Tweak prompt to change the colors from the standard black=C, red=O, light gray or white=H. All the atoms I *thought* were carbon before are apparently oxygen instead.
@Uilebheist Giving up on glucose, I asked for naphthalene (looks a little like two benzene rings stuck together). I got progressively weirder molecules, finally terminating in this one, which is ... two rings stuck together ... but that's its only concession to reality.
Take a look at that cursed carbon atom at the right side of the junction of the two rings. It's got five bonds to the carbon atoms it's bound to, plus at least three to the 3 hydrogens it's attached to, making a minimum of 8. I don't think I've ever seen an intro organic student come up with *octavalent* carbons before.
@geoglyphentropy@mstdn.social @cstross@wandering.shop Still better than the google one, which put a big "ITALY" where Algeria is in the normal maps. And moved Milan where Naples is. Oh and drew a huge lake inside the former Yougoslavia, occupying most of what should have been land. As for glucose... it managed to draw penta- and exa-valent Carbon atoms. Not sure where it hallucinated that. (Can find where people posted about that here and link if one wants to watch the horror)
Are you telling me ARRMAGH isn't a real place? Do better Ireland smh
I just didn't know Londongrl was in Unster, is all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSi4CDANuUY
@cstross Looks perfectly accurate to me.
Here's what Claude (Sonnet 4) produced for me. It's both much better and much worse.
You could use that to deliberately nuke Belfast, but not Londonstrokederry. Anything less than about 100 Hiroshimas.
Now I'm thinking about the parallels between Belfast and Hiroshima. "Inland sea". Sizes aren't far off. Go-game temporarily interrupted by a nuclear bomb? - I'll have to check with Belfast's Gō club.
@tautology @gjm @cstross no idea what those rivers are doing, but at least "Here be dragons" is correct!
(I was born in one of those cities and grew up in another - they're the right cities but in the wrong order , to paraphrase someone from aforementioned dragon territory)
Credibly attributed top Upton Sinclair:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
My first impression was that Unster wasn't bad but then I found Northern Ireland which is indeed somewhat doubtful.
Points for Londogrl. Neither one thing nor the other as Churchill remarked on a very different occasion. Which is more or less ChatGPT's superpower.
Not bad for a fantasy novel frontispiece, needs more mountains. Or cowbell, I don't know.
@cstross When I show stuff like this to "AI" boosters, their response is, "Sure, right, that's terrible, but you're asking it to do something it's not good at! Let's focus on what it *is* good at!"
To which I respond: The thing it's "good" at is lying with confidence. Which isn't, like, actually *good*.