Notes for Americans:
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross That one at least is so bad that you couldn't actually match it to anything in a real plug. The one up-thread is much worse, because it looks more or less like the innards of a plug.
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross adding that diagram to the set of things I remember when someone tells me they're adding AI to some product/domain as a Good Thing
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RE: https://nomenloony.com/@nomenloony/116019280517956996
Notes for Americans:
1. Until 1992 you had to wire your own plugs onto new electrical appliances in the UK (they were sold without pre-molded plugs).
2. Mains voltage is 230VAC, not 110VAC. It'll kill ya.
3. If you follow ChatGPT's advice *YOU WILL DIE*.
oh yeah, well 60hz works better for clocks.. And our Sonic ran faster than your Sonc... So!.

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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross M.C. Escher would have been proud.
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@cstross only missing the enormous rat-penis
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross
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@cstross Blive implies the existence of a Bdead
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@cstross that one is such obvious garbage that even if someone tried to follow it they'd fail.
The danger is with plausible but wrong. OTOH the one showing phase and neural linked is going to go bang quickly, where swapping phase and earth is a known killer. Maybe that's why the LLM wanted a fused earth?
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross yeah right….
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross Elon Musk's Grok has its own quirks:
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
@cstross Ok I think I know who did the wiring in my house now. They literally painted the end of the wire when they used the wrong one.
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@darckcrystale @auxonic @cstross
Oh, you'll fly all right, but the landing's gonna hurt.
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@cstross Escher's Suicide Plug
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There are WORSE AI-generated images of how to wire a UK mains plug. Here's one I saved last year.
How the Holy Hell did they generate that? I mean, the UK has had more than enough competing designs over the years (some more dangerous than others), but that one's a physical impossibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets:_British_and_related_types
I've used most of those, over the years, plus the bizarre one with standard earth pin, one round pin and one rectangular (rotated 45 degrees) with fuses for both small pins (Bi-phase 240V centre-tapped to Earth!) That one was at Dunlop, and now gone. (Thank the Gods.)
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@cstross yeah right….
@cstross i told it how useless and dangerous the slopmachine is and in the end i shamed it into giving me parameters of its python sandbox