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No, not really. There was a real wolf and the person dusturbed the operation. "South Korean police have arrested a man for sharing an AI-generated image that m
by lukan 6mo ago
No, not really. There was a real wolf and the person dusturbed the operation.
"South Korean police have arrested a man for sharing an AI-generated image that misled authorities who were searching for a wolf that had broken out of a zoo in Daejeon city.
The 40-year-old unnamed man is accused of disrupting the search by creating and distributing a fake photo purporting to show Neukgu, the wolf, trotting down a road intersection"
- sillysaurusx 6mo agoBut there are real wolves when shepherding too. That’s why crying wolf has any power. To cry wolf is to say there’s a wolf here when it’s actually located elsewhere. The AI photo said there was a wolf at a certain intersection when it was actually located elsewhere. In fact crying wolf is doubly appropriate because it means disturbing an operation looking for a wolf.
- croes 6mo agoCrying wolf is normally starting the operation while there isn‘t a wolf. This is misdirection while there is a wolf Similar but different
- weird-eye-issue 6mo agoThat's completely pedantic and besides it's false because there literally wasn't a wolf there where he faked the photo in the first place
- croes 6mo agoCrying wolf is crying for help when there is no danger not when there is a danger just at different place. That's not pedantic, that's the meaning of the idiom.
- weird-eye-issue 6mo agoThis is real life there's always a danger just at a different place.
- fc417fc802 6mo agoIf you stipulate that everyone must be relaxing at the time, sure. But the core concept of crying wolf is IMO simply a false alert with no particular constraints placed on those responding. I think in this case it simultaneously qualifies as crying wolf as well as misdirection.
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- croes 6mo agoBut this isn't a false alert. The alert is real, people just got misdirected.
- weird-eye-issue 6mo agoIt was a false alert in that particular place. I doubt those residents who were alerted had felt like they were previously in immediate danger.
- tokai 6mo agoYou don't get to chose pedanticism when it suits you. Please stop.
- debo_ 6mo agoNot pedanticism. Pedantry. /joke
- sebastiennight 6mo agoThink of it like this: if this same story was happening a couple of centuries ago, pre-Internet, this person who just got arrested would have been sitting at their balcony, crying "the wolf is here! down at the intersection!" ; causing the hunting team to waste time.
- bryanrasmussen 6mo agowhat if the real criers of wolves were the sheeple we misled along the way?
- heliumtera 6mo agole reddit mentality
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- psychoslave 6mo agoThe biggest difference now is wolf is actually sought to protect him¹ from the crowd of the super-predators in town, so they can "give him a calm environment for recovery". ¹ Following pronoun variant used in the fine article here.
- PUSH_AX 6mo ago> the person dusturbed the operation Did they? The article says it's unclear as to their intent. > Authorities did not specify if the man had intentionally sent the photo to authorities during their search or simply shared it online.
- lukan 6mo agoIntent or not, it did disturb as it misslead. And .. how can one imagine not disturb a search, when posting a wrong location?
- stronglikedan 6mo agoIntent or not, disturbing the search or not, it's silly that the authorities would arrest a civilian because of their own incompetence.
- computerfriend 6mo agoCivilians get arrested for incompetence all the time.
- baranul 6mo agoThat's the true core of the story. Was the man truly trying to mislead authorities or is it more about authorities using the man as a scapegoat to hide their incompetence.
- lukan 6mo agoThey were searching for a wolf. (Not really a standard task) They don't have total surveillance, so also rely on public information - a citicien posts information about the location of the wolf, a picture! - authorities adopt their search based on that picture Where is the incompetence here?
- yongjik 6mo agoI swear, some commenters here think "the government is incompetent" is an axiom and work backward from there to fill in the details.
- pj_mukh 6mo agoIf this was America there would be 20 think pieces in the Atlantic about how AI is ruining our culture and no one would get arrested.
- moron4hire 6mo agoThere was a real wolf in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", too.
- shlant 6mo agowhat an incredibly dumb thread this is. OP pointed out something amusing and it's being ruined by completely useless pedantry
- fennecbutt 6mo agoWelcome to HN, I guess
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- sunaurus 6mo agoI'm honestly not convinced that it isn't just LLMs going in circles with each other
- colechristensen 6mo agoSerious suggestion: we flag responses or have a separate flag for comments which are unnecessarily pedantic / the commenter is functionally illiterate / the commenter didn't read (the three things are somewhat indistinguishable).
- arjie 6mo agoI find that building a personal blocklist extension for myself lets me treat such threads as fertile grounds. I no longer get annoyed because I am pleased that I can quickly remove a lot of low quality commenters at once. Recommend writing one for yourself (trivial with LLM). Original comment was clever and subsequent commenters were uninteresting to me. In this case, I only saw it because I’m on my phone which doesn’t have Chrome extensions. Turns out I’d already blocked them.
- lukan 6mo agoWell, I was a bit missled by the original comment, then I read the article, found the case to be a bit different than the tale and posted context. But giving the pedantry nature of HN, I should have probably been more clear in my wording to avoid the debate about meaning of words. Because yes, there is a resemblance to the fable, just not literally the same.
- colechristensen 6mo agoPerhaps you forgot the fable which... features a real wolf.