Friday, June 19, 2026

A Cautionary Tale

 First - thank goodness for the sound majority of Andy Burnham. Phew. Reform was soundly beaten.

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Now for what I wanted to write about today. In my last post I wrote about Len. Check it out. When I first wrote that post I was sitting in bed. I couldn’t remember how the inscription read on his bench. (At that time I thought there was only one bench.) So I asked Google AI if it could tell me what the inscription said, and I posted the result on the blog.

This is what AI said:


But I was uneasy. It didn’t sound right. So when I got up I went down to the Co-op and read the inscriptions on both benches for myself. And I corrected the blog. This is what they both said:




So I went back to AI and told it what the inscription actually said.

This is how the conversation went. It’s long, but worth reading. The first bit in quotes is what I told AI. AI starts with “Honouring Len Alesbrook.”






And now for a nice photo of something completely irrelevant. Except that loveliness is always relevant.




3 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:05 am

    A very interesting intercahnge, which simply confirms what I have always believed, that the term 'artificial intelligence' is completely incorrect - there is nothing intelligent about it. It is simply a regurgitation of other sources of information or simple invention of 'facts' Peter

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  2. Anonymous9:55 am

    That AI has got an attitude!
    Creepy as ****.

    Thea x

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  3. Anonymous11:40 am

    Jaw-dropping is usually a figure of speech - but not this time! I also was given wrong info by AI recently - it told me that Eurostar stops at Calais-Frethun and I was pretty sure it didn't. I was right. Chrissie

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