The Horrors of AI

[Bernard]

Yesterday I went to switch my flyer spinning wheel from double drive to Scotch tension. (There are 3 basic tensioning systems, Scotch, Irish, and double drive. The purpose of the tension system is to vary the speed difference between the flyer and the bobbin so take up can occur.) I have always used double drive except for a few rare occasions. So I did a quick google search to make sure I was setting up the Scotch tension correctly. And this was near the top of the search results. It is obviously AI generated, the text is repetitive and reads like a badly written user manual, but the illustrations are beyond the imagination. What a travesty. The "Components of the Scotch Tension System" must contain a hundred pieces and looks like something nautical. In reality, Scotch tensioning amounts to 2 small springs and a length of string! The "Adjusting Scotch Tension" picture looks like some sort of nightmare, a fuel-injected spinning system, though how that thing could ever work is beyond comprehension.

https://edinyarnfest.com/scotch-tension-spinning-wheel/

It is highly disturbing to come across this. What if one were completely new to spinning and this was the first thing they found on tensioning?

AI sites and pages and illustrations need to be clearly identified as such.

The other thing is the site's name "edinyarnfest". There really was an Edinburgh Yarn Festival, though it is now -- to my knowledge -- defunct.

Shame.

[wtg]

I didn't watch the Super Bowl yesterday, but read about an AI glitch with a Google ad.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-fumbles-gemini-super-bowl-ads-cheese-statistic?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472

[AdagioM]

Ugh @Bernard, that’s too bad. Too bad about Edinburgh Yarn Fest, too.

[Bernard]

@wtg It's pathetic. Google search lately has been especially bad. I'm turning to Bing more often now.

[wtg]

I use DuckDuckGo.com .

[Daniel]

What is this thing you call a Super Bowl?