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Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

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Generative AI products like ChatGPT work by scanning data, and then concocting a response which sounds like the data. In other words, it's always making something up, and giving an answer that sounds right based on what it has "learned". This is how we got to this bizarre illustration of pregnancy.

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We'll start with the foetus in the uterus, chilling out in there in a head-up position with neither an umbilical cord nor a placenta (foetuses very much need those).

The position of the foetus at this stage of pregnancy would usually be head-down, but many medical illustrations will depict this head-up position in a specific context: when talking about breech births, which require extra medical assistance.

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If we're being meticulously, scrupulously fair, we can also mention that not all foetuses need the cord and placenta. Sharks don't, and can be gestated in artificial uteruses. masto.ai/@vagina_museum/112773…

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Next up, you might be wondering what the little oblong labelled "cervix" is. Well, it is absolutely not a cervix, but there is a real body part there; that isn't "hallucinated". That's the pubic symphysis, a cartilaginous joint at the front of the pelvis which frequently appears in sagittal diagrams of the gynaecological anatomy.
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So how did the pubic symphysis come to be labelled "cervix"? Pretty much every diagram of the gynaecological anatomy contains a label which says "cervix". If you're a robot, you probably know that a label saying "cervix" is part of a diagram, but you don't actually know what a cervix is, so you slap that label anywhere.
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The only part on this diagram which is labelled even vaguely correctly is the pudendal nerve. There is indeed a nerve complex round there which is called the pudendal nerve. And bits of it *are* positioned around the anus and buttocks. But if you have a vulva, the nerve complex continues around there. It doesn't kind of trail off into nothingness beneath the buttocks.
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But do you know when the pudendal nerve *does* appear at that exact angle on a diagram? If you have a scrotum.

Image credit: Mikael Häggström

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Which brings us onto the part which most of you probably noticed first: the uterus and bladder which open out onto a penis, labelled "rectum".
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Okay first of all, that bit is not a rectum. In fact, ChatGPT's diagram contains a perfectly correct rectum next to the spine, but see above for why the label is incorrect.
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Moreover, it is not correct to say that absolutely no creature in nature has a bladder and vagina which open out onto a penis-like organ. Hyenas do (although the urethra and vagina are separate). masto.ai/@vagina_museum/109479…
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And so, putting it all together, ChatGPT has not, in fact, invented anything wholesale. It's cobbled together some things which are correct into a montage that is completely, wholly wrong. It's mashed together information from medical diagrams about pathology, diagrams of the penis, perhaps a few illustrations of animal genitalia, then added a few labels which frequently appear in medical diagrams.

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So that's how generative AI works... and how it can tell you you'll give birth out of your penis-rectum.
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I assume you are saying ChatGPT just got confused by the woke trans agenda… ;)

(What a thread, fantastic. Thank you)

Edit: anyone seeing this and mistaken me being cranky and snarky about the bullshit machine as transphobe: Trans rights are human rights, I would never oppose that. Cheers.

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I like reasoning-focused LLMs like DeepSeek R1 because when their model size is small and their knowledge is limited, you can get a glimpse into how they fabricate things out of thin air and the reasoning that leads them to their answers.
People who work with LLMs, myself included, should learn to enjoy the jumbled mess they create.
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One favor: these stochastic machines cannot think! They average data and compile answers from it. They cannot think, feel, or reflect. Using these words to describe what these machines do obscures the fact that they are only machines.
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AFAICT, which isn't a whole lot because I've only cursorilly attempted to use it, this is the same thing it does with coding.

It able to do really simple things pretty quick and accurately. It's when complexity compounds or it runs into situations in which it had little training (the first issue may be the same as the second) it makes shit up anyway that kinda sorta looks right if you understand some basics and only look at elements without systemic context.

VCs insist it used

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arguably it's ahead of the times on this one, mislabeling aside.
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I noticed the baby + penis combination before any labels tbh
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It's a little bit more than that. The robot also has in its model some statistics about where the label appears in the diagram relative to the borders and other elements in the image. There's a high probability it appears next to a line so it'll make one. There's a high probability that line angles a certain way, ends at a certain relative point, that point having some sort of blob or whatever around it. Stuff like that. A large set of such rules.

It's not completely random.

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It doesn't need a placenta or umbilical cord because it's actually a plastic fetus model.
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The illustration is wonderful example of the male bias, which equates human beings with male human beings. And while I am at it, why does this "standard image" of the human body depict a white? The majority of humans are not white.
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the entire design is "sure, that sounds like the kind of thing that's true", which unfortunately about a billion people have been primed to accept as truth by decades of managerial/ministerial bollocks-speak
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So we now know how AIs procreate. Newborn goes through the penis. Glad I'm not an AI!
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I’m no bodyologist but hmmmmm, something seems slightly off 🤔
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I stole that picture to show my students what chatGPT writes when they ask it to do their foreign language homework. It perfectly illustrates why they think it's ok, and why I say it's not.
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The longer I look at this picture the worse it gets.
Uuuuh I guess it's uuuh transfem supportive?!
😭
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Idiots will use this to blame trans* for raising numbers of pregnancy deaths
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I suppose you didn't tell it whether your pregnant body is female or male
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Child using AI: Ah, so baby's do come out of Mom's butt.

Me: *head-desk* oh wait it's worse than that.

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this would look perfect in an omegaverse biology book. However that baby is gonna be born through a penis, but details!
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this is terrifying. #AI is already injected in #Google #searchresults and if it takes anymore room, will replace the existing algorithms with devastating consequences. Basically it'll be like 1994 again, except we'll be in a massive #enshitification ocean rather than in a void, which is worse, because now people believe they have data and will act adamantly accordingly, when in 1994 we knew we had nothing.
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SEX ED209

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sorry for the Robocop reference, this is serious business...

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I kinda want to paste this into the Calvin and Hobbes classroom presentation on bats.
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You're just trying to get us to not visit the Penis Nondepository new exhibit 'Hall Of Shame'.
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Saw a really funny scene in a really stupid movie last night: A cop suggested that a murderer's attempt to stretch a uterus around an adult human head and sew it up was a sign of a very positive and optimistic mind.

"Confession" on Tubi. It's a fun watch for a while. They tried....way too hard. Either that or it was written for LSD users.

Think this image is in schoolbooks yet?

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asking for a friend : was the generative AI asked to hallucinate an « easy to find clitoris »?
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This is a diagram from the 1994 film Junior, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Emma Thompson.
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chatgpt didn't bother to study for the exam but decided to waste as much of the teacher's time as possible. it gets an F and needs to see me after class.
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Overheard only by my brain gremlins:
"I mean, you can tell what it's supposed to be....ohmygod there's a penile rectum..."
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Jesus! I hope the next generation of obstetric doctors aren't trained with that as a reference
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I think that image is grotesque as well as funny. Imagine if a guy had to worry about getting knocked up.

I think that would be a great idea. Let’s make the human species hermaphroditess

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"fuck you this is real" - the AI developers who each and every one has never seen a vagina
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AI is not a good source for obtaining information on any subject. These AI text generation tools are essentially optimized for generating plausible sounding misinformation.
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I, for one, do not welcome our hyena-human hybrid overlords.
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It looks as if giving birth will be extraordinarily painful. Maybe that’s a good point for guys to get!
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I don't know what I'm more afraid of, how giving birth with anatomy like that would feel or how you'd get pregnant like that in the first place.
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Thread on this malformed Ai-generated gynaecological diagram ⬆️ 🤣
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perhaps if we did a better job teaching biology/anatomy people wouldn't need to ask chat GPT about their own bodies.
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mpreg kink is honestly the best argument I've seen *for* overgrown autocomplete so far.
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damn I had a rectum hangin off the front of me this whole time? Nature's wild, man
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My 2nd thought to this was that that anatomy for the bladder would be quite annoying with pee leaving at the front and back simultaneously 😅
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I hope people in power aren't using AI to make decisions 🙄
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ah. always wondered if i shitted out the baby or not from a weird looking butthole. now i know.
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Wonderful. Now I fully understand all there is to know about human reproduction and can stop reading stupid old books.

About that anus?.... Nah.

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Clearly the only human anatomy the AI needs to know is what's required to kill us all efficiently. In the meantime, I'm pretty sure its just screwing with us.
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At least there's something comforting about AI not making any artificial humans soon.
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😬 And Ivthought, my daughter's birth was complicated. Wouldn't want to have to go through THIS!
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This is so incredibly horrific to look at. And yet, I can see this somehow appearing in a textbook.
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That is exactly how students would master multiple choice instead of learning and knowing.

My favorit is the rectum mark.

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One Weird Trick to see if your AI was trained on the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Junior".