The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please go to the original post.
I'm an electrician.
I dare you to use ChatGPT to wire a plug.
This is why AI is absolute horse shit.
This entry was edited (19 hours ago)
Unus Nemo doesn't like this.
reshared this
Anthony 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃🌟✨️🕯🏏🧩🎭🪁
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Anthony 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃🌟✨️🕯🏏🧩🎭🪁
in reply to Anthony 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃🌟✨️🕯🏏🧩🎭🪁 • • •looks like Google's Gemini got it right.
g.co/gemini/share/c0bcb787ae74
Dave Rahardja
in reply to Anthony 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃🌟✨️🕯🏏🧩🎭🪁 • • •Elias Probst
in reply to Dave Rahardja • • •@drahardja even AI itself doesn't know, since it doesn't understand, conceptualize, think...
It just replicates and generates what, statistically most likely, matches the recipients expectation.
@skyfire747 @nomenloony
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to Dave Rahardja • • •Taran Rampersad
in reply to Dave Rahardja • • •Raineer 🦆
in reply to Dave Rahardja • • •@drahardja @skyfire747 @blogdiva
My favorite quote about LLMs is that they are extremely effective for people who already are domain experts on the topic
The UX fail of the century is for every one of these companies to not append “teach me how I would verify this is true?” to every single prompt.
The skill it takes to use the tech is higher than the avg user is going to invest. Every single maker of chatbots has ignored this from day one.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫
in reply to Raineer 🦆 • • •@raineer @drahardja @skyfire747 @blogdiva
Domain expert here: they aren't extremely effective for me in my field (programming) because to tell an LLM precisely enough what to do, I'd have to use a verbose English description, and I've already constructed the solution in my head in a more structural form that isn't words. Turning it back into words to tell an LLM what code to generate is a step backwards.
Matt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups
in reply to Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ • • •Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫
in reply to Matt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups • • •@technicaladept @raineer @drahardja @skyfire747 @blogdiva
No, a duplicate explanation of what the code is doing is not what comments are for.
Comments are more for "why" one method or choice than another, sometimes "why not", than "what".
Except doc comments, which are closer to spec i.e. "what". The code itself is "how", and it doesn't necessarily come via a verbal description in natural language.
waldi
in reply to Anthony 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃🌟✨️🕯🏏🧩🎭🪁 • • •cyplo
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Hans Zelf 🇪🇺🌻
in reply to cyplo • • •Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
in reply to Hans Zelf 🇪🇺🌻 • • •@hans_zelf @cyplo
it is not unlikely the 32A breaker on the ring final circuit (used for the UK sockets) opens before the plug top fuse, and if its RCD protected it will definitely open (often putting the building in darkness if the RCD is not part of the 32A breaker or its not a split board with two incomers and lighting circuits on a different one)
cyplo
in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK • • •Nömenlōony
in reply to Hans Zelf 🇪🇺🌻 • • •cyplo
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Maurice
in reply to cyplo • • •Justin M
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Chao-c'
in reply to Justin M • • •@Jam123 But in a way, it repeats the "Facebook effect", where all content, never mind how crazy or fake, looked equally neatly formatted, typographically correct and somehow... professional. It was such a big difference, compared to wild aesthetics of eg. older Geocities, which made even serious content look like collage by madman.
And in the same way: all stuff presented by AI looks neatly formatted, visually consistent... yes, only looks, but how many people really analyze it or compare it?
@nomenloony
Ramses Revengeday
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •aspragg
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •> would go with an immense bang if you were to plug it in.
HOW?!? 😆
How would you plug that thing in? The terminals wouldn't line up with any socket you could find. On that front, at least, it is completely safe!
AskPippa🇨🇦
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •(Sorry, couldn't resist. But yikes.)
CockneyLaurie
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Josh
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Bill the Lizard
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Twoowls Elt 🦉 🦉
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Indyzign 🏳️⚧️ 🏴
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •for those of you that don’t know, or won’t remember a pic of the correct one, it’s super easy - from the back of the plug - BLue = Bottom Left, BRown = Bottom Right
It amazes me just how … shit … this AI nonsense is. Happy to say aside from one try when it first launched, never used it since. Crapola
Marcella Francesca
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Jay 🇺🇦
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •It's on the same level.
Penises on pregnant women, bones that do not exist etc etc
Kierkethumbs up convincingly
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •paul
in reply to Kierkethumbs up convincingly • • •@Kierkegaanks
it is a just a new form of natural selection.
StarkRG
in reply to paul • • •Rust
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •VHG 🇪🇺🇺🇦
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Log 🪵
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Owen G. Richards - ANTIFAscist
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Scary...
But not as scary as the idiots that blindly believe the machine!
Mike Torr
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •SMDH.
I like to remember it from the top, going anticlockwise:
EARTH
WIND
& FIRE
Murray GM - Paperposts
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Transcedental
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •AI is meant to "flood the zone with sh*t" to quote Steve Bannon.
Polluting access to accurate information is just one form of the #Enshittification enabled by fossil fuel funded fascists.
wired.com/story/trump-energy-i…
nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technol…
desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch…
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
ft.com/content/572b40c1-cf90-4…
archive.ph/J8nsu
theguardian.com/environment/20…
cfr.org/podcasts/why-it-matter…
carnegieendowment.org/middle-e…
desmog.com/2025/04/22/ai-energ…
middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-a…
trump-energy-industry-ai-fossil-fuels-pittsburgh-summit
www.wired.comTwotired
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •katzenberger
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Seb
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Nömenlōony
in reply to Seb • • •serk
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Lesley M 🏴 🇪🇺
in reply to serk • • •@serk
That number is already non-zero.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_l…
Jennifer Moore 😷
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •sortius
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •I'm not even an electrician, and I could see the one of the left was wrong without the one on the right.
Why? Because my dad taught me how to wire a plug.
ChatGPT is for people who can't do, don't want to learn, and don't care if they get it wrong
@iveyline
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •tautology
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •this is one of my normal tests about how crap AI image gen is.
My thread here: bsky.app/profile/tautology.uk/…
I did a more recent one with maps which was properly hilarious.
Rupert Reynolds
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Don't feed your AI on magic mushrooms 😀
T3rc
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Wait till you see the code it generates!
I’ve been using it professionally for the last 6 weeks or so to “yolo” an app in work. Using Claude but I guess I’m spending 30-40% of my time cleaning up the code out generates.
Andres
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •This gives me an idea for a reality television show involving techbros.
They get to go about common tradesmen and household repair tasks using their AI.
I think it would be popular although short-lived
Justin Derrick
in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Justin Derrick • • •Ulrich Ivens
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Ulrich Ivens • • •Make it 8k and we are good
💀 𝓕airchild 💀
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Geoff 🏴
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •This is somehow worse.
Gareth Kitchen
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Owl Eyes
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Mr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •True! ChatGPT gave me these two monstrosities! I also used the AI ALT-Text generator in IceCubes and it didn’t notice the weirdness.
Justin Derrick
in reply to Mr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼 • • •@LMac1970 Also notice that the colour scheme in the legend vs. the text in the diagram are totally wrong. 😁
Brown = live = neutral = blue wire
What could possibly go wrong...
Sean07
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Taran Rampersad
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •BigD
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •My understanding of AI ( which is none really) is that it generates a solution, answer, whatever is being sought, from a vast source of data.
So then , is the vast source it collects it from, wrong to begin with. Or at least the majority is wrong, being non human the IT machine can't see that, so it assumes it's giving the correct answer or solution to the request and so the human who requested it believes it to be correct because it's IT.
I'll stick to human to human for now.
pela0
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Andi H
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Chinga la migra! 🍉🌈
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Evan Beaver
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Simply introduce a live-earth link in the plug!
Didn't realise your plugs are fused. Makes some sense, not done here (AU)
Nömenlōony
in reply to Evan Beaver • • •Johann150 ⁂ ☮
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Glob
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Schneewölfchen 🌨️🐺
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •I like the completely destroyed screw head for the cable grip... 😆
The only stuff I use LLMs for is either shitposting or translating source-code warnings to wizzardy old-english. 🥴
Angela Scholder
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Emilio ʕ̡̢̡ʘ̅͟͜͡ʘ̲̅ʔ̢̡̢🇩🇰
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Does every UK plug have it's own fuse ?
A question from the colonies.
Drew 🇵🇭 ♾️
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •@nomenloony
DeterioratedStucco
in reply to Drew 🇵🇭 ♾️ • • •@drewtowler
... meanwhile, buildings burn down. With their occupants.
@nomenloony
Szescstopni
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •stony kark
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Aaron David
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Human after all
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Parsingphase
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Mad Engineering
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Remembering that Tumblr bit with that banger of a line:
"But you don't care for power safety, do ya?"
☮️ & 🍺 on 🌏
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Aztec4Life
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •potentially hazardous object
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •i hadn't zoomed in or read the post or alt text and am a *very* unsophisticated user when it comes to anything electrical, and at first glance i thought the correct chart was on the left and the AI-generated pic was on the right
once i read the text body and inferred that the thing labelled so confidently "correctly wired" must be the slop, then read the alt text and confirmed it was so, everything made so much more sense
AI infographics are such an awful case of "we can lie faster than you can fact-check"
amenome
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Ian Hill
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •I wonder whether the LLM used the back cover of Hawkwind’s 1979 album PXR5 as part of its training material. Great album though.
#chatgpt #aiisbullshit #aiisdangerous #hawkwind
saucerlost
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •@nomenloony
Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •So after you get zapped, you go back and modify your prompt?
It says, I'm sorry, try this. Then you get a medium zap.
Do you go back and prompt again?
Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️🌈
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •What the flippin’ hell 😳🙀
Just so ya know I am *NOT* an electrician and I am freaking out at this image 🙀💀!!!
“We’re doomed” 💀
(Please play in your head Bernie Sanders’ doppelgänger/distant cousin when he said that exact line 😹)
Steve Lindsay
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Glen T, heated, not stirred
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •14mission
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •I've fixed up plenty of things myself, but electricity can kill you and that's one to leave to pros.
Shannon Prickett reshared this.
DeltaWye
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •ah yes
Live blue and earth.
14mission
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •8Petros [cracking the system for a living] likes this.
8Petros [cracking the system for a living]
in reply to Nömenlōony • •Steffen Voß
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •"I have got a brown and a blue cable and an LED. How do I connect that LED in three steps so it glows? Explain in simple word (for a layperson)"
The given tutorial results in this:
Michal 🇨🇿
in reply to Steffen Voß • • •It will glow!
just_one_bear
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Matt Godden
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Σ(i³) = (Σi)²
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •that you can use to meet the Lord,
'cause you don't care 'bout power safety, do ya?
Negative12DollarBill
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •He knows grass on the earth is green and yellow”.
indigo8s
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Hakuso
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •I feel sorry for people looking stuff up, now, with how many sites are just generated slop.
I rewired my bedroom as a teen with info found on Usenet. Accurate info from a real person with the knowledge I needed instead of a LLM running a predictive algorithm on what a real answer might be.
ARGVMI~1.PIF
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Mensch, Marina
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •We need to curb in the use of A.I. - we need to make someone take responsibility for errors!
Tau
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Mia Alm
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Chasalin
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •SunDancer
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •*nervous eye twitching*
We are so lost as a species.
Pangudani
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Steve Holden
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •prozacchiwawa
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •love the detail that it labeled the drawing "Correctly Wired" to make it sound more official.
we were probably better off when diffusion was melting the letters together as it at least hinted that the output was an approximation.
Momo
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •1000millimeter
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Krijn Soeteman 🎙 🏳️🌈
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Tim Small
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Not to excuse this BS in any way, but I wonder if it has absorbed things like this (seen at a client site recently, supplying a 500W appliance).
kuulman
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Richard Wenstone✔️
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Perplexity, which is the only AI I use, got it correct and provided references (as it usually does).
I wouldn't use an AI for anything without references, and then checking those myself.
Joachim Selliken
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Armin
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •It actually gives some pretty funny results...
Melissa
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Stephan
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Alexa Devreux-Swift
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Ela - TechnicalOtter
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Hopefully though the RCD in the board will kick in and stop that, although I imagine the chat bots next advice is “tape it on”…
Ian Norton (he/him)
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Girl about village
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •essjax
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •KissYagni
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •@nomenloony
wink
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Frank
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •Eoin
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •John_Loader
in reply to Nömenlōony • • •