You just need to find the right AI image and it will break the spell. This view of NYC sent him into ... a state.
I bet if you don't live here it looks kind of OK.
So just show them something they know and it'll all fall apart.
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@steve @futurebird …and they put the Bronx across a river??
@futurebird @steve Is that where it is though?
Why is Harlem in the UES?
Where did the UES go?
@futurebird Honestly, I think the Upper East Side could use that kind of gentrification.
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Why does it look like the Triborough Bridge goes directly to the Bronx?
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maybe at bitter upper and a bit easter..
visto the perspective of it all..
@futurebird as someone who doesn't live in NYC... it does look sorta ok? provided i am ignoring the general genAI vibes, and unimportant details like there being *two* horizonts, which i'd otherwise interpret as big red flags to ignore everything this says precisely *because* i wouldn't know.
@futurebird ...then again, it also *does* say "hell's kitchen" on there. is that a real place? sounds more like the name of a restaurant thats kinda a secret gem but you have to know it than something that would go on a map like this.
(in my defense for not knowing shit about new york: i challenge you all to assign country names to a map of europe)
Hell's kitchen is a NYC neighborhood that's been around forever. My mom and brother used to live there.
@futurebird well, you learn something new every day. it's certainly much more valuable to hear this from someone who has been there, than an AI which is statistically right most of the time, but may or may not also smuggle one or two (or ten) outright lies in.
what's next, chatGPT tells people bielefeld is real?
(context for the joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy)
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It's not Broadway for me, it's half of the rest of the map. Look at the GWB.
@futurebird this is a 100% correct map. They even got the colour right - we all know broadway is made of yellow bricks because that's what they based the Wizard of Oz on, that's why they sing and dance while travelling on it in the documentary with the little girl
@futurebird I couldn't even look at the details of the map itself, the second the shape of the image loaded my gorge started rising and I had to click away 🤢
@futurebird I thought I could handle it and it turns out I was wrong 😔
@futurebird jesus fucking god, the perspective on this... thing... as you move up along New Jersey vs. moving up along Manhattan
even if you know nothing about NYC the goddamn curvature of the Earth is not different in New Jersey than it is in Manhattan
... well....
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Unique among rivers, the Hudson is 300 feet higher on one side than the other. Sliding downhill out of control toward NJ is a known hazard of navigation.
@futurebird @mcmullin @aud New Jersey is always beach, just ask Ken
@futurebird — I should’ve believed all your content warnings. 🫠
@futurebird what the ever loving fuck did they do to the GWB