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@cstross So here’s what I don’t understand. If I search “How to wire a UK plug” and ignore the AI, the first handful of sites I checked all have correct wiring diagrams. There must be hundreds of correct diagrams online. So if the AI is basing its answers on what it finds, why is it getting this wrong? It should be easier to get it right than wrong !
@elaine1helen AIs are *generative* and they're designed to generate an answer shaped object, not provide an *actual* answer.
@cstross this is still ok, right?
Copilot just now with prompt.
show me a picture to explain how to wire a UK plug
Interested in the Earth being a 4th pin and the Earth pin having a live (coloured) wire going to it.
Also, a screw labelled as LIVE is concerning.
@winkleink @cstross Always keen to jump on a bandwagon, I just asked Gemini to draw me a diagram of how to wire a UK plug. And, well, I'm not asking Sundar Pichai for any DIY help any time soon.
There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross ah yes people often make the mistake of confusing live and blive. Thankfully this diagram makes it very clear which is which
@cstross I figure at the rate of the Accelerando, we are no more than weeks away from "agentic AI" demanding access to people's financial accounts. Hopefully some of those people will be billionaires drinking their own Kool-Aid.
Don't worry, your bank will do it for you.
https://www.macquarie.com.au/digital-banking/q-ai-agent.html
@cstross I just asked Gemini to create one for us in Australia. Might try it later… just not sure…
@cstross Blive implies the existence of a Bdead