Charlie StrossMay 30

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.

Show threadFrank Skornia
@cstross I can't wait for the first war to be fought over a border decided on by an AI-generated map </sarcasm>
May 30 at 7:05pmWeb
Show threadTed MielczarekMay 30
@fskornia @cstross the US government is already using this garbage to write policy (like the tariff nonsense), so it's only a matter of time.
Show threadCharlie StrossMay 30

@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.

Show threadgabriele renziMay 30
@fskornia @cstross to be fair, there's a chance the US will start a war over Greenland cause Trump.does not understand map projections, no need for ai slop
Show threadFrank SkorniaMay 30
@riffraff @cstross He doesn't need to understand anything about maps. He has a Sharpie and can make the map show whatever he wants.
Show threadWellsiteGeoMay 30

@fskornia @riffraff @cstross
"make the *mapmakers* show ..."

Fixed that *tyop* for you. HTH (a town in Mongolia, probably).

Show threadWellsiteGeoMay 30
@fskornia @cstross
Looks at the post-WW1 division of the southern Ottoman empire (Sykes-Picot map? I ought to check, but there's AI for that), and wonders
- It needs AI?
Show threadAngus McIntyreMay 30
@fskornia @cstross In fairness, those six-fingered freaks in Trnsmoldistria brought it on themselves by attempting to annex our province of NaN, which -- as this map clearly demonstrates -- has been part of Bratwurstislava since Attila the Hen defeated Genghis Khan Noonien Singh at the bottle of Costco Polje.
Show threadAdonnenMay 30
@angusm @fskornia @cstross KHAAAAAAAAN
Show threadΣ(i³) = (Σi)²May 31
@fskornia @cstross Eh, most of the wars fought in the last 50 years in the middle east, southeast Asia or Africa were due to some border drawn by some British bureaucrat in some office. It really doesn't take AI to mess up this stuff. 🤷‍♂️