AI fails

[briantrumpet]

and even of cripples.

That reminded me of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invacar - short for 'invalid carriage'

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Likewise ‘mong’ and ‘spas’. I can still remember the collection box for The Spastic Society in my local supermarket as a kid, obviously that was just the correct term but the images on the box always felt a bit strange to me even then.

There was a poster on here not so long ago that saw no problem with using the word spastic to describe people, even when it was pointed out to them that the term was outdated and offensive.

 

[Ian H]

That reminded me of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invacar - short for 'invalid carriage'

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Those originally had Villiers engines, which moved them at a fairly sedate pace. Then they were upgraded to Greaves engines and were capable of 80mph. Not long after that they were discontinued and the Motability scheme replaced them.

 

[briantrumpet]

There was a poster on here not so long ago that saw no problem with using the word spastic to describe people, even when it was pointed out to them that the term was outdated and offensive.

I can cope with people being unaware, but I can't be doing with people who knowingly carry on causing offence when it's pointed out.

There was an interesting debate in Exeter circles a while ago when a prominent academic historian who writes books on all sorts of Exeter subjects wanted to research a local version from around WW2 of a toy 'golliwog' and via Facebook asked if there were any still extant in people's houses. You can imagine that Facebook responded in quite a lively manner, but how can you deal with contentious (and offensive) history if you can't discuss it? At least Gray recognises the contentiousness in his raising the subject.

 

[FishFright]

I bet you didn’t get an expert to find out, but Googled it.😉

Actually I read it on a forum , ie The Boomer Research Tool

 

[BoldonLad]

I was unsure if this should go in the jokes thread, but, realising it was terribly misogynistic and not in the least funny, I thought it should go here:

 

[swee'pea99]

My daughter, who at 30 is actually in the jobs market rather than looking at it in an abstract way from the outside, tells me that one of the biggest problems these days is the widespread use of AI to screen applicants and deliver auto-rejections if cvs failed to meet certain defined criteria. She told me of one senior manager, looking for somebody to work directly to them, who had after four months despite a healthy salary and a good job received not a single applicant from human resources.

Out of curiosity, he submitted his own CV, having changed identifying details. Sure enough he got rejected for the position helping him, despite ideal qualifications the length of your arm. When he looked into it he found out one of the auto-reject criteria contained a word that had been spelt incorrectly, so anyone who failed to match that error got rejected. Without any human ever being involved at any stage. Nobody had noticed. This misspelling had led to the rejection of tens of probably highly qualified candidates over the course of 3 to 4 months, and denied him a PA he desparately needed. And if he hadn't looked into it nobody probably would've ever found out why.

 

[briantrumpet]

A long read.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/03/andor/#either

 

[briantrumpet]

Further, re enshittification in general, here's a useful list: https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/

 

[briantrumpet]

From The Economist

 

[briantrumpet]

I think if I twigged that a business had sent an automated AI-written reply, I'd simply tell them where to shove it and where I'd be taking my business next time. It's as meaningful as having an automated system for sending birthday greetings to your friends without you having to think about it.

"Localo: can't be bothered to reply in person to a great review? We'll do it for you!!"

 

[briantrumpet]

I wonder which Wikipedia page this AI fail scraped...

 

[Pross]

Select that option and they prescribe maggots to deal with any infected wounds and leeches for everything else.

 

[briantrumpet]

Select that option and they prescribe maggots to deal with any infected wounds and leeches for everything else.

Bleeding doctors, eh?

 

[icowden]

Select that option and they prescribe maggots to deal with any infected wounds and leeches for everything else.

Maggots are used today. My daughter is training to be a nurse and observed some maggot therapy only recently.
They use sterile fly larvae and they happily clean up dead, damaged and infected tissue. They release fluids that melt the damaged tissue and their secretions also kill off dangerous bacteria and break down germ layers.

Very modern.

The NHS also uses leech therapy. They are very useful for draining venous congestion when trying to salvage tissue for reconstructive surgery, plastic surgery and microsurgery.