Notes for Americans:

@cstross @auxonic as in, if you follow this diagram you will bdead?

@cstross I do these threads every so often. My most recent one was on my Bluesky where I got four LLMs to draw maps progressively getting more zoomed in (the World, Europe, UK, Yorkshire, York).

Things got worse each time you zoomed in, sometimes with "memories" from the previous image. My favourite was the attached version of Yorkshire.

I'll do another one in a month or two.

@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?

@cstross Escher's Suicide Plug

@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.

@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

@cstross

oh yeah, well 60hz works better for clocks.. And our Sonic ran faster than your Sonc... So!.

@uep @cstross Why bring Elon Musk into this?

@darkling @cstross well now, I can think of worse places to apply 13A of 240V

@cstross
Looks plausible to me

@auxonic @cstross I blive I can flyyyy

@moz @cstross
I mean, you'd hope that a plug which shorts live and earth would just trip the house breaker or RCD, but it could also make nearby appliances live or cause a fire, if there's a fault or if the rest of the wiring is to the same standard

@cstross yeah right….

@cstross MY EYES

@cstross Elon Musk's Grok has its own quirks:

@cstross

@cstross
that's what you get feeding Escher drawings to AI bots

@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.

@darckcrystale @auxonic @cstross

Oh, you'll fly all right, but the landing's gonna hurt.

@cstross

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.)