Homeowners around the world suffer a lot of damage due to woodpeckers. How about a system of microphones around the house that listen for the sound of a woodpecker and, if heard, dispatches a drone that lives somewhere on the edge of the exterior, maybe under an eave? The drone will then use its own microphone and camera to locate the woodpecker and harass it, with a water pistol if necessary, until the woodpecker finds a tree or an unprotected home to destroy.
ChatGPT refused to draw a picture of a drone discouraging a woodpecker with harmless water: “I can’t create an image that depicts harm being done to an animal — including a woodpecker being shot with water. … Instead of water hitting the bird, the drone could be shown with a water spray or mist aimed at the trim (not at the bird), to illustrate the concept of “protecting the house” without showing harm to the animal.” It then proceeded to generate an image that looks to me like the poor bird is being blasted with water:
(The Gaza Health Ministry reports that more than 60,000 woodpeckers have been killed via water pistol.)
Grok didn’t comment on my desire to see a photo of violence being done to a woodpecker, but it decided that the stream of water should emerge from the woodpecker:
Classic 3 lil pigs…build your house of brick, like ours. He’s gonna get a dull beak on our siding. Our problem is carpenter bees the size of VW Beetles–probably would take an AC-130 Gatling-gun to take one out. They bore into anything wood, especially expensive, decks, fences, etc. They are lazy bastards, though, and usually filling with plastic wood putty keeps them in the woods where they belong.
Came here to ask “Was the banner picture of this page AI generated?”:
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
I feel the singularity twitching with all the synchronicity going on today.
These garbage images are paying for our retirements. The discovery of life on Mars is not enough to shift investment away from nuclear powered garbage generators.
That second pic unfortunately reminds us of today’s Charlie Kirk assassination(?). The shooter looked strangely like Larry David.