@ai6yr isn’t it time for a Darwin Award then?

@ai6yr the same people who trust an LLM agent with their credit card.

@ai6yr seriously?
"Another Mount Shasta visitor pitched her tent near a “No Camping” sign, insisting she had a right to do so because AI told her she could, Meyers said."

@ai6yr I’ve seen it personally. Such as an AI itinerary in the Grand Tetons that tried to send someone to Oxbend Row. (There is no such place… there is a Mormon Row and an Oxbow Bend.)

And this is the technology techbros are using to write their code. 😬

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#ArtificialStupidity : map edition

@ai6yr Find out who embraced Chatbots and AI and give them a Gibbs' biff.

@ai6yr Have we seen this story before? https://wildfiretoday.com/another-couple-and-a-baby-this-time-get-lost-and-snow-bound-using-gps/

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I've been sailing for a few years, including in some rough conditions offshore.

I've never been more nervous than the day I hopped on a boat for a simple fair weather day sail whose captain asked ChatGPT for a nautical chart and route through a crowded harbor.

I brought my own dang chartplotter with me along with a crap load of other safety and survival gear.

@ai6yr There's a very evil part of me thinking this isn't a loss for the human intellectual gene pool.

@ai6yr are people so removed from physical reality that they don't realize the wilderness can...you know...kill them if they're ill-prepared? is this what a lifetime of convenience culture nets us?

@ai6yr Dang. Hiking, backpacking, etc. is an area that I still would 100% work only with a paper map printed by a reliable source.
Even if I fully trusted the digital information, I wouldn't trust a digital device in the wilderness without backup.

Heck, when I travel, I still carry printed copies of my boarding pass and any reservation information. And I consider myself a technologist!

@ai6yr I mean, it's A way to thin the herd out by letting the dumdums remove themselves, but... yikes.

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:facepalm:

But, knowing some people I know, nothing about this surprises me. They ask GPT about weather... outside, right now.

WAT