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Even more oddities spotted in the news
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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news
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08-01-2025, 10:11 AM
I do not recommend visiting Aiken, South Carolina, USA in order to get insect-themed superpowers.

Wasp nest at US nuclear site tests ten times over safe radiation limit
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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news
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08-01-2025, 12:53 PM
... Anybody remember the name of those mutant wasps from Fallout?
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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news
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08-01-2025, 03:39 PM
Well, there was Steve, Walter, Joey... <grin>

I think you're thinking of "cazadores".
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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news
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08-04-2025, 01:37 PM (This post was last modified: 08-04-2025, 01:41 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news
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08-09-2025, 08:40 AM
Meet President Willian H. Brusen from the great state of Onegon

tl;dr: To nobody's surprise, generative AI sucks at text in images. It handles text as text just fine, but ask it to draw pictures of letter-forms and it usually collapses.

Some of the generated images:


Maps of the USA, as drawn by generative AI.


GPT-5 ChatGPT:

[Image: map1.jpg]


GPT-5 canvas:

[Image: map8.jpg]


Bing Image Creator:

[Image: map5.jpg]


Claude LLM:

[Image: map7.jpg]


Google Gemini:

[Image: map9.jpg]



James Bond actor infographics, as drawn by generative AI.

GPT-5:

[Image: map4.jpg]

(Hmmmmm... It might be worthwhile putting this one on ATT's page for the James Bond movies. AI-generated images are PD in the USA...)


Bing Image Creator:

[Image: map6.jpg]


Google Gemini:

[Image: map10.jpg]
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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news
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08-09-2025, 08:51 AM (This post was last modified: 08-09-2025, 08:51 AM by robkelk.)
Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them

My immediate reaction before reading the article was "Don't they self-destruct?"
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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news
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08-09-2025, 09:31 AM
(08-09-2025, 08:51 AM)robkelk Wrote: Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them

My immediate reaction before reading the article was "Don't they self-destruct?"

Yeah, but like the Cybertruck in so many other ways, not reliably.  Tongue
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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news
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08-09-2025, 10:05 AM (This post was last modified: 08-09-2025, 10:06 AM by classicdrogn.)
They do have that whole Bond villain "awesome but impractical" thing going on, like so many of Musk's (or COBRA Commander's) projects.
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RE: Even more oddities spotted in the news
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Yesterday, 08:10 AM
Jellyfish shut down Gravelines nuclear power plant




AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service

Waitaminute... AOL still has dial-up?

Quote:There are plenty of commercial applications where a reliable, low-bandwidth connection is more than adequate. Some users in remote, rural areas might have few other options.

There is that. They'll need to find another supplier after September 30.
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