His team also encountered a man wandering around at a trailhead with an AI-generated map that showed prominent features on the wrong side of a nearby mountain.

[bazkie@beige.party]

@jonny 🥹

[gaditb@icosahedron.website]

@jonny Because that's the properties of the tool they were promised.

If you, I dunno, go up to a friend or hire a secretary or go to a travel agent -- all the prior metaphors the companies selling these are instructing people to use -- and ask them to help you plan a trip, they're gonna either say "yeah here's a map that I got from somewhere I trust enough to use myself" or else say "nah" and you won't have anything.

The idea that "I'll draw you a professional looking map, it'll just be wrong" is completely, well, off the (metaphorical now) map of anything the companies providing these are giving to their users.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@jonny

so hard not to be mean-spirited about this.

[lazarou@mastodon.social]

@jonny should we be rescuing these people? /s

[allanb@mastodon.social]

@jonny It's also a delicious spread on toast!

[griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com]

@jonny I have been made to think about this by living in through The Years 2020 and I have a weird theory that people believe that the computer generating it will be more “efficient”. Efficiency is a hand wavy metric here that has more to do with feelings BUT it is also about “AI can quickly make a map and I don’t have to bother looking for a good one”

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@carstenfranke @jonny Tbh I'm not sure Enlightenment-flavored modern society can continue to exist if a significant plurality of people are, frankly, dumb as rocks.

[sgsax@mastodon.social]

@jonny Hear me out: this is a self-solving problem.

[carstenfranke@mastodon.social]

@theorangetheme
Agreed... Back in 1996 I and 3 other chemist friends developed a sociological thesis: A) 90% of the population is incredibly stupid and B) there is no lower limit for stupidity.
Ok, not totally serious, that all was based on observations in a vacation resort in Spain... But it seems we are making an effort to get there. And this "AI" craze is accelerating it. It is depressing.

@jonny

[bamfingle@cyberplace.social]

@jonny These stories have become more and more frequent. Yikes on trikes.

[katja@toots.matapacos.dog]

@jonny but AI has electrolytes... It's what shareholders crave! /j

[jsbarretto@social.coop]

@jonny The map is the territ- oh wait, fuck

[lrhodes@merveilles.town]

@jonny AI maps: putting humans into literal loops.

[wronglang@bayes.club]

@jonny oh no, people get lost and die even with correct maps

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@jonny

happens way more often than it ever should

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/117215795130883496

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@futurebird @jonny

when they put their toddler on a bison for a photograph, then you can get really mean-spirited

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@jonny

The track record of AI generated maps are pretty consistent. It’s not changed. It was a disaster a few years ago. It’s still a disaster.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@carstenfranke @jonny

they are frying their brains, and their bodies in the afternoon sun, without water because the AI said they only needed a single water bottle

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@jonny

Think of it as evolution in action

Larry Niven

[autolycos@beige.party]

@benroyce I can't wait until it fucks up our real topo maps... @carstenfranke @jonny