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Hyphens are important.
by tomtom1337 4y ago
Hyphens are important.
- scaredginger 4y agoDamn, this is disturbingly close to "Eats, shoots and leaves"
- Oarch 4y agoThe comments made me realise there's at least 3 meanings: Mushrooms that eat plastic. Plastic that eats mushrooms. 'Eating mushrooms' (ie edible) that are made of plastic. Any more?
- raffraffraff 4y agoLet's give that sentence to AI and see what image it produces
- rroot 4y agoHere we go: https://imgur.com/a/v3VhRR9 https://imgur.com/a/v3VhRR9 Created by DALL-E using the prompt "Plastic Eating Mushrooms".
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoI like that one of them is a fly agaric (the classic red with white spots toadstool) that's poisonous. While you can eat them after boiling, it's not really a go-to example for an "eating mushroom". Really shows that there's still a lot of context blindness in AI. Also it seems to have glommed firmly onto the "mushrooms for eating, that are made of plastic" parse.
- marcosdumay 4y agoFunny that AI is certain the mushrooms are made of plastic. I don't think many people get this as a first interpretation. (Personally, I got the plastic doing the eating one.)
- rpod 4y agoIt’s funny because hyphens (hyphae) are also a type of mushroom.
- tomtom1337 4y agoHah! Amazing!
- adammarples 4y agoHyphae aren't a type of mushroom, they're the filaments that make up fungi. A mushroom is a part of a fungi, made of several Hyphae joined together.
- dang 4y agoOk, we've belatedly hyphenated. Good point—thanks!