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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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Attached: 1 image 🎡Gestating sharks, doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo 🎡Artificial womb, doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo This video, from Tomita and colleagues (2023) shows lantern shark embryos gestating in an artificial uterus.
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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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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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OLD THREAD REPOST Good afternoon, who would like to hear about hyena clitorises? Well, great news for those of you who do (and terrible news for those who don't) because you're going to hear about hyena clitorises now.
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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 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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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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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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@yaarur And the fact that it is actually able to discern these "rules" and spit out something that has anything at all to do with the context within the prompt is actually a HUGE technological advance from what came before LLMs. Awe inspiring even.

I just described a bunch of stuff that is really hard to accomplish in computing. LLMs are actually good at what they were made to do. The rest of it all is pure ignorance and the manipulation of it.

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β€œdecades of managerial/ministerial bollocks-speak” is part of what helped me recognize β€œAI” for the bullshit generator it is… it’s output is very familiar.

That, and watching β€œYes, Minister” when I was young (my father was a bureaucrat). The ability to recognize and call out well-formed surfaces empty of meaningful content was highly prized in our family.

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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.
#ai #google #enshitification #searchresults
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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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