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Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

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Re: Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

Noticeably absent from the possible errors that have led to this - it was generated by AI and the AI hallucinated wrong flags.

In fact if this was the cause it totally highlights the benefit of not using AI, because of course the AI hallucinated and the only way to fix it is to either keep trying to use AI to do it, or do it by hand, or using one of the methodologies already mentioned which if those were the cause of the error would be an easily findable and fixable bug.

Re: Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

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Post by apt-apt-apt-apt »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #2

Noticeably absent from the possible errors that have led to this - it was generated by AI and the AI hallucinated wrong flags. In fact if this was the cause it totally highlights the benefit of not using AI, because of course the AI hallucinated and the only way to fix it is to either keep trying to use AI to do it, or do it by hand, or using one of the methodologies already mentioned which if those were the cause of…

This is like saying scissors can poke you, so don't use scissors.

Re: Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

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Post by frollogaston »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #2

Noticeably absent from the possible errors that have led to this - it was generated by AI and the AI hallucinated wrong flags. In fact if this was the cause it totally highlights the benefit of not using AI, because of course the AI hallucinated and the only way to fix it is to either keep trying to use AI to do it, or do it by hand, or using one of the methodologies already mentioned which if those were the cause of…

I doubt the results are AI-generated

Re: Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

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Post by abenga »

apt-apt-apt-apt wrote: post #5
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #2

Noticeably absent from the possible errors that have led to this - it was generated by AI and the AI hallucinated wrong flags. In fact if this was the cause it totally highlights the benefit of not using AI, because of course the AI hallucinated and the only way to fix it is to either keep trying to use AI to do it, or do it by hand, or using one of the methodologies already mentioned which if those were the cause of…

This is like saying scissors can poke you, so don't use scissors.

No it's like saying scissors poke so don't use them to hold up an inflated balloon.

Re: Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

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Post by vitally3643 »

apt-apt-apt-apt wrote: post #5
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #2

Noticeably absent from the possible errors that have led to this - it was generated by AI and the AI hallucinated wrong flags. In fact if this was the cause it totally highlights the benefit of not using AI, because of course the AI hallucinated and the only way to fix it is to either keep trying to use AI to do it, or do it by hand, or using one of the methodologies already mentioned which if those were the cause of…

This is like saying scissors can poke you, so don't use scissors.

It's more like saying that electric scissors (look it up) can randomly stab blades out of the handle at you and sometimes it's easier and faster to use regular scissors and avoid dealing with random stabbing.

Re: Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026

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Post by frollogaston »

malshe wrote: post #4

I couldn't reproduce this issue so maybe they have fixed it. On a related note, could you include screenshots in the post?

Even if the bug is still there, this kind of thing is so A/B tested or dependent on other variables that nothing is going to be reproducible on our end
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