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Google Maps prankster puts fake Aldi supermarket in the middle of the countryside - sending an 'endless stream' of shoppers to a quiet Welsh village

Daily Mail - Science & tech

But Google Maps has been causing chaos for some shoppers after pranksters set up a'phantom' Aldi in the middle of the Welsh countryside. The small village of Cyffylliog has been inundated with an'endless stream' of confused shoppers looking for somewhere to buy their groceries. Following Google's directions actually brought them to an empty field on a remote farm tens of miles away from the nearest supermarket. While it might have been added as a joke, the fake Aldi has since led to chaos for this small community as deliveries have begun to arrive in search of the non-existent supermarket. The misguided prank has even led to real Aldi deliveries arriving on one farmer's doorstep and becoming stuck on the narrow lanes.


AI Written, AI Read cartoon - Marketoonist

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One piece of slang that has long embodied the short attention span Internet age is TL;DR, short for "too long; didn't read." With the explosion of generative AI tools, we're rapidly entering the age of TL;DW: "too long, didn't write." A January survey from Fishbowl found that 40% of nearly 12,000 workers have used ChatGPT or other AI tools at work. Nearly 70% said they did so without telling their managers. As Microsoft and Google accelerate the AI arms race in every communication tool, it will be interesting to see how workplace norms keep up.


Can AI help design our logo?

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We ordered some designs on a well known freelancer site. As reference we added instructions in the orders. "A kind, helpful looking elf with a santa hat", "i'd like it to be in the style of a mascot logo or combination logo", "it should be cute" etc and attached a few images of various robots and then I drew a very rough sketch. We started experimenting with CLIP and BigGAN through Ryan Murdocks "Big Sleep". We were testing what kind of images we could get by asking it to draw a green robot rocket with big cute eyes.