Pretty Messed Up

I needed a graphic for another of my posts, so I asked an “AI” (really just a Large Langugage Model, or LLM).

Sketch a grayscale image of a wall calendar for november 2024.

This is what I got. I cropped it and reduced the resolution slightly.

It's pretty. But it's messed up.

• Days are not lettered right.
• Numbers are not in the right order and are duplicated.
• Starts on wrong day of the week.
• There should be at most two ragged line lengths in a month, one at the start, one at the end.
• Underneath the month at the top is a line that says something about Thanksgiving but blurs out what day it is.
• It shows Thanksgiving on the 29th. The latest possible first Thursday is the 7th. Three weeks after that is the 28th.

This was done with Abacus.ai's Claude Sonnet 3.5 using Flux.1.

So I thought maybe I could just get Google to make me a calendar. I forgot somebody would want to sell me one. My search turned up these, among others. No wonder the first one is on sale. It doesn't have the right start date for the month either.

I wonder if this is just business as usual or part of some disinformation campaign for the election.

 

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