Thousands of people will take to the waters around the UK over the festive season at organised swims that have been held for decades.
But those going it alone may want to heed Maritime and Coastguard Agency warnings not to rely on AI tools when planning outdoor activities as it can make mistakes.
The advice comes after two people became stranded on Sully Island, near Barry, after ChatGPT gave them the wrong tide times and they had to be rescued by the coastguard.
The warning echoes advice from a top tech industry chief not to “blindly trust” everything AI tells people.
The companies that make sites like ChatGPT should be billed for emergencies they cause with their systems’ hallucinations.
At least it should be smart enough to censor the answers to unsafe questions and replace them with a boiler plate warning to use official channels. They have no problem doing that with bomb making instructions and the likes (…and political stuff)
Asking when the tide comes in doesn’t seem like an unsafe question.
Guessing you’re not from a place with tides as dramatic as where I’m from. Tourists get in trouble regularly.
If they censored every time when AI could not be trusted then the responses would just look like the official epstine documents.