Interesting MonkeyJun 10
Alison Creekside
AI for the win again! Meta AI & Google searches report Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because it was in the Beaverton. 🤣
Pillaged from BSky. #cdnpoli #AI
Jun 10 at 12:19pmWeb
Show threadClinton Anderson SwordForHireJun 10

@AlisonCreekside

"I used AI to....", is nothing more than, "Listen I'm not an asshole but....", for the 21st Century.

#FuckAI

Show threadfinserra 🙌Jun 10

@ClintonAnderson @AlisonCreekside

Just to test its capabilities, I periodically ask various engines to write essays of topics well known to me. It fails miserably in terms of accuracy and depth. Lots of buzz words, fifth grade filler material, and outright falsehoods. I’m not seeing it (yet, anyway).

Show threadClinton Anderson SwordForHireJun 10

@finserra @AlisonCreekside

All so-called "AI" is slop.... It's all built on theft, and it's all an environmental disaster.

We shouldn't even be testing it.

Show threadMarc "Anarchy" GodinJun 10
@AlisonCreekside I have never been 12 minutes ahead of anyone, ever (and certainly not since I moved to Cape Breton)
Show threadRaglan Niall  Jun 12
@quietmarc @AlisonCreekside precisely! Set your timepieces 12 minutes ahead and suddenly you'll be right on the cutting edge.
Show threadGordon J HoltslanderJun 10
@AlisonCreekside Next it will be articles on the independent nation of Alberta …
Show thread@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPEJun 10
@AlisonCreekside Obviously an AI hallucination. Cape Breton *is* in its own time zone, but it is a relaxed hour or so behind the rest of Nova Scotia.
Show threadPatrick Morris MillerJun 10
@AlisonCreekside People are turning their thinking over to machines in hopes that that will set them free. Of course, that only allows other people with machines to enslave them.
Show threadFlaming CheetoJun 10
@AlisonCreekside Satirists to their parents, "See! My work is saving the world from Skynet! You think my brother Billy the podiatrist is an obstacle to automated overlords?!? "
Show threadArtemisJun 10
@PizzaDemon @AlisonCreekside
I'm just imagining a world in which they ban satire because the ownership class is pissed off that it's confusing their theft machines.
Show threadRobin BartonJun 10
@AlisonCreekside Amazing and scary
Show threadIan Douglas ScottJun 10
@AlisonCreekside And if a language model doesn't even "know" the difference between a saterical publication and actual news, it definitely doesn't recognize misinformation, conspiracy theories, and propaganda.
Show threadJustin DerrickJun 10

@AlisonCreekside A friend asked Google which planes the Canadian Snowbirds flew, and Gemini said "C-130 Hercules".

C-130s are some of the largest cargo planes in the world, and definitely NOT what you want to try and do low-level acrobatic manoeuvres in.

When I told the friend it was incorrect, I got some sass about being a know-it-all, but when they checked a website from the government, I was redeemed. :)

Show threadCynBlogger™️DissentsJun 11
@JustinDerrick @AlisonCreekside 🙄
Show threadByMatthewPorterJun 10
@AlisonCreekside
being-naive-enough-to-believe-everything-on-the-Internet-is-true-as-a-service
Show threadCome On Giant Asteroid!Jun 10

@AlisonCreekside

Is @VeryBadLlama not here any more???

Show threadUlrik Nyman ⬡Jun 10
@AlisonCreekside @VeryBadLlama see post above
Show threadMay Keable 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Jun 10
@AlisonCreekside Quick! Use copilot to generate a new Time Zone library for NPM.
Show threadElliottJun 10
@AlisonCreekside Cape Breton really is the Newfoundland of Nova Scotia
Show threadTimothy KingJun 10
@AlisonCreekside @siracusa imagine what we could have if AI models were trained on The Onion
Show threadJim SpathJun 10
@AlisonCreekside Heads up for @uselessclock or @UselessClock2