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Quite. And that wasn't the worst!
Psamathe
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Which AI?
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Honestly can't remember now. It was one of those things at the time. Maybe Copilot. Whichever one it was, I do remember telling it twice it was wrong, twice it said "Sorry, you're right", did something equally ridiculous, then finally gave in and linked to a correct diagram which wasn't an AI creation. And I didn't understand why it hadn't done that in the first place.
Pblakeney
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This could have went in a multitude of threads but since AI is from and centre...
CNN: “The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel. Armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air.”
… “It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of AI - and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.”
… The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
CNN: “The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel. Armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air.”
… “It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of AI - and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.”
… The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
Psamathe
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Going over a New Scientist review discussing AI and Navier‑Stokes equation and they were pointing out it cost to OpenAI was $15m and put that much money into human mathematicians and you'd get a lot more useful stuff out. Also they pointed out that these AI companies are not (directly) telling us what problems they have not yet been able to solve. Apparently they set off their resources on 6 of the Millennium Prize Problems yet are only saying anything about the Navier‑Stokes equation
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briantrumpet
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OK, this is both remarkable in some ways, but hilarious in others.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisjustice01.bsky.social/post/3mvsllsnbpc2x
An 'AI actress' decides that Chinese would be a better language to use, mid-response.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrisjustice01.bsky.social/post/3mvsllsnbpc2x
An 'AI actress' decides that Chinese would be a better language to use, mid-response.
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An interesting piece on the scourge of AI-created event posters all looking the same. It's possible to instruct AI to do something different, if you know what to ask for, it seems.
https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html
AndyRM
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You're part of the problem when you link to this pish.
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Sorry. He does admit that they all still look AI-ish. But it makes me doubly curious why everyone is using AI, and using it so badly. (I realise that people using it better isn't going to make proper artists/graphic designers happy.)
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Sadly, I suspect that AI will do to graphic design what digital cameras have done to photography as a profession: it won't kill it entirely, but it'll narrow the profession to far fewer people who have the skill and reach to persuade businesses that the much higher quality of their concept and output is worth paying properly for. Some people will pay for AI that churns out generic stuff thinking they've got a bargain compared with paying a proper human, and some people will use a free version of AI that churns out tosh.
As I'm sure you're aware if you've ever sat on a committee with a design pro and everyone else, everyone else thinks they are an expert when it comes to designing posters for events.
As I'm sure you're aware if you've ever sat on a committee with a design pro and everyone else, everyone else thinks they are an expert when it comes to designing posters for events.
AndyRM
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Are you having a laugh?
I'm a "design pro".
You're a creative too. Why you think that advocating AI as a good thing is beyond me.
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I'm not advocating for AI, if you read carefully what I wrote. Digital photography has been terrible for the profession of photography as a whole and the quality of output, whereas once the cost of equipment and the skill needed in processing images was a barrier. Pretending AI doesn't exist isn't going to save the graphic design industry from a similar fate, because too many people will say "that'll do", even if the results are often execrable.
