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.

[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

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@autolycos @carstenfranke @jonny

just apply minecraft logic and chop away the blocks that shouldn't be there

[autolycos@beige.party]

@benroyce @carstenfranke @jonny like Sutro?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@autolycos @carstenfranke @jonny

well the AI is always right. so if reality differs with AI, then reality is wrong

so yes be like sutro and dig for the comstock lode until you have a nice pretty hole in the ground, just like where the AI map said the gold would be

the gold is in the hearts of our AI plutocrat overlords. just believe!

[autolycos@beige.party]

@benroyce @carstenfranke @jonny

[aphantastic@social.vivaldi.net]

@jonny

In a way, I'm not surprised. Years ago, we'd see news of people following non-AI Google Maps without really looking at their surroundings.

People vastly underestimate the amount of knowledge and practice that's required to do many of the things they want to do. It's the whole reason the techbros push AI and talk about "democratizing" art, coding, etc.

They can't do it themselves in one go, don't want to practice and learn, so someone else must be holding them back; here's the AI doing it for you.

[standev@mstdn.social]

@jonny is this nature healing itself?

[be@floss.social]

@jonny I know a guy who had Claude plan a road trip with his partner. What could go wrong.

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@jonny (weary battle cry) slop! slop! slop!

[shadesofraye@mastodon.social]

@jonny

AI generated books on foraging posing as real books being sold on Amazon are getting people sick too.

[thegreatllama@kolektiva.social]

@jonny
Hypothetically, what if you wanted maps that don't correspond to actual places, but wanted to use them in the real world?