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  • Daniel CarosoneU Daniel Carosone

    @cstross only missing the enormous rat-penis

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    @uep @cstross Why bring Elon Musk into this?

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    • Hugo MillsD Hugo Mills

      @uep @cstross Why bring Elon Musk into this?

      Daniel CarosoneU This user is from outside of this forum
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      @darkling @cstross well now, I can think of worse places to apply 13A of 240V

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      • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

        There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

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        @cstross
        Looks plausible to me 🤣

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        • Eric GoodwinA Eric Goodwin

          @cstross Blive implies the existence of a Bdead

          Bloqueuse CrystaleD This user is from outside of this forum
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          @auxonic @cstross I blive I can flyyyy

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          • MozM Moz

            @cstross that one is such obvious garbage that even if someone tried to follow it they'd fail.

            The danger is with plausible but wrong. OTOH the one showing phase and neural linked is going to go bang quickly, where swapping phase and earth is a known killer. Maybe that's why the LLM wanted a fused earth?

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            @moz @cstross
            I mean, you'd hope that a plug which shorts live and earth would just trip the house breaker or RCD, but it could also make nearby appliances live or cause a fire, if there's a fault or if the rest of the wiring is to the same standard

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            • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

              There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

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              @cstross yeah right….

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              • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

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                @cstross

                That's... deeply confused.

                Likely unsurvivably so.

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                • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                  There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

                  Nicovel0 🍉N This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @cstross MY EYES

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                  • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                    There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

                    Nigel WadsworthN This user is from outside of this forum
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                    @cstross I just asked Gemini to create one for us in Australia. Might try it later… just not sure…

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                    • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                      There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

                      J.J.Fux 1660-1741M This user is from outside of this forum
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                      @cstross Elon Musk's Grok has its own quirks:

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                      • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                        There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

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                        @cstross

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                        • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                          There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

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                          @cstross
                          that's what you get feeding Escher drawings to AI bots

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                          • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                            There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

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                            @cstross Ok I think I know who did the wiring in my house now. They literally painted the end of the wire when they used the wrong one.

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                            • Bloqueuse CrystaleD Bloqueuse Crystale

                              @auxonic @cstross I blive I can flyyyy

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                              @darckcrystale @auxonic @cstross

                              Oh, you'll fly all right, but the landing's gonna hurt.

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                              • Rolf Steinort (314.8 ppm)R Rolf Steinort (314.8 ppm)

                                @cstross Escher's Suicide Plug

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                                @rstein @cstross love it

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                                • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                                  There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

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                                  @cstross

                                  How the Holy Hell did they generate that? I mean, the UK has had more than enough competing designs over the years (some more dangerous than others), but that one's a physical impossibility.

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                                  I've used most of those, over the years, plus the bizarre one with standard earth pin, one round pin and one rectangular (rotated 45 degrees) with fuses for both small pins (Bi-phase 240V centre-tapped to Earth!) That one was at Dunlop, and now gone. (Thank the Gods.)

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                                  • NfoonfN Nfoonf

                                    @cstross yeah right….

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                                    @cstross i told it how useless and dangerous the slopmachine is and in the end i shamed it into giving me parameters of its python sandbox

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                                    • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                                      There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.

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                                      @cstross I figure at the rate of the Accelerando, we are no more than weeks away from "agentic AI" demanding access to people's financial accounts. Hopefully some of those people will be billionaires drinking their own Kool-Aid.

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                                      • ColmD Colm

                                        @cstross

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                                        @dotcolm @cstross That bit of stripped wire on the bottom left is also going to hurt

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                                        • tautologyT tautology

                                          @cstross I do these threads every so often. My most recent one was on my Bluesky where I got four LLMs to draw maps progressively getting more zoomed in (the World, Europe, UK, Yorkshire, York).

                                          Things got worse each time you zoomed in, sometimes with "memories" from the previous image. My favourite was the attached version of Yorkshire.

                                          I'll do another one in a month or two.

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                                          @tautology

                                          A plan that I am sure pleases many a #Yorkshire person.

                                          I was going to ask where all of t' soft southerners get to live in this vision of t' future, then I noticed that t' Isle of Wight was not labelled.

                                          So: T' #AIs have roughly t' same plan as t' U.S.A. government had in Escape From New York.

                                          (-:

                                          @cstross
                                          #IsleOfWight #GreaterYorkshire #JohnCarpenter

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