National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name

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A graphic forecasts “gusty south winds tonight” and shows a map that lays out the names of nonexistent towns, like “Orangeotilld” and “Whata Bod” — an unintentionally hilarious hallucination that sounds more like an old timey dirty joke than an actual place where people live.

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NWS has largely lost the ability to do that. The NOAA data just isn’t there thanks to DOGE tearing the agency to shreds.

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Perhaps my 11 years there were actually shitposting the seeds of AI’s eventually demise.

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Umm … the National Weather Service can’t “just look it up”, they are who gathers the data and creates the forecast in the first place.

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This is the natural result of training the ai on Reddit posts

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…. train on fedi to get the extra dry slop.

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The word “hilarious” doing a lot of heavy lifting there

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