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Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.
Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
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If we're being meticulously, scrupulously fair, we can also mention that not all foetuses need the cord and placenta. Sharks don't, and can be gestated in artificial uteruses. https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/112773765560702345
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We'll start with the foetus in the uterus, chilling out in there in a head-up position with neither an umbilical cord nor a placenta (foetuses very much need those).
The position of the foetus at this stage of pregnancy would usually be head-down, but many medical illustrations will depict this head-up position in a specific context: when talking about breech births, which require extra medical assistance.
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Generative AI products like ChatGPT work by scanning data, and then concocting a response which sounds like the data. In other words, it's always making something up, and giving an answer that sounds right based on what it has "learned". This is how we got to this bizarre illustration of pregnancy.
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Next up, you might be wondering what the little oblong labelled "cervix" is. Well, it is absolutely not a cervix, but there is a real body part there; that isn't "hallucinated". That's the pubic symphysis, a cartilaginous joint at the front of the pelvis which frequently appears in sagittal diagrams of the gynaecological anatomy.
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The only part on this diagram which is labelled even vaguely correctly is the pudendal nerve. There is indeed a nerve complex round there which is called the pudendal nerve. And bits of it *are* positioned around the anus and buttocks. But if you have a vulva, the nerve complex continues around there. It doesn't kind of trail off into nothingness beneath the buttocks.
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So how did the pubic symphysis come to be labelled "cervix"? Pretty much every diagram of the gynaecological anatomy contains a label which says "cervix". If you're a robot, you probably know that a label saying "cervix" is part of a diagram, but you don't actually know what a cervix is, so you slap that label anywhere.
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So that's how generative AI works... and how it can tell you you'll give birth out of your penis-rectum.
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Moreover, it is not correct to say that absolutely no creature in nature has a bladder and vagina which open out onto a penis-like organ. Hyenas do (although the urethra and vagina are separate). https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/109479197717671335
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And so, putting it all together, ChatGPT has not, in fact, invented anything wholesale. It's cobbled together some things which are correct into a montage that is completely, wholly wrong. It's mashed together information from medical diagrams about pathology, diagrams of the penis, perhaps a few illustrations of animal genitalia, then added a few labels which frequently appear in medical diagrams.
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Okay first of all, that bit is not a rectum. In fact, ChatGPT's diagram contains a perfectly correct rectum next to the spine, but see above for why the label is incorrect.
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Which brings us onto the part which most of you probably noticed first: the uterus and bladder which open out onto a penis, labelled "rectum".
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But do you know when the pudendal nerve *does* appear at that exact angle on a diagram? If you have a scrotum.
Image credit: Mikael Häggström
Paul Cantrell
Yeah. I mean, not that peers are reliable either, but…yeah.
Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦
@vagina_museum @inthehands … and God help any teen asking their chatbot buddy for birth control advice 😨😖.
SuperDicq
@vagina_museum@masto.ai Some people are into mpreg
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Original post from u/snarky_spice on r/ChatGPT
Tim Clevenger :donor:
@Frantasaur @barubary @kotaro @vagina_museum When humans do it, it's called bullshitting.
Oriel Jutty :hhHHHAAAH:
@kotaro @vagina_museum """reasoning"""
Franchesca
@barubary @kotaro @vagina_museum it makes stuff up, and then you ask it for the reasoning and it makes more stuff up 😅
Kotaro
@vagina_museum I like reasoning-focused LLMs like DeepSeek R1 because when their model size is small and their knowledge is limited, you can get a glimpse into how they fabricate things out of thin air and the reasoning that leads them to their answers.
People who work with LLMs, myself included, should learn to enjoy the jumbled mess they create.
Carl
@vagina_museum The illustration is wonderful example of the male bias, which equates human beings with male human beings. And while I am at it, why does this "standard image" of the human body depict a white? The majority of humans are not white.
Master of Crevettes
@vagina_museum I stole that picture to show my students what chatGPT writes when they ask it to do their foreign language homework. It perfectly illustrates why they think it's ok, and why I say it's not.
JaneraTiciano
@vagina_museum this would look perfect in an omegaverse biology book. However that baby is gonna be born through a penis, but details!
crazyeddie
@vagina_museum Saw a really funny scene in a really stupid movie last night: A cop suggested that a murderer's attempt to stretch a uterus around an adult human head and sew it up was a sign of a very positive and optimistic mind.
"Confession" on Tubi. It's a fun watch for a while. They tried....way too hard. Either that or it was written for LSD users.
Think this image is in schoolbooks yet?
Svavar de los Muertos
This is a diagram from the 1994 film Junior, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, and Emma Thompson.
Klappspatack
@vagina_museum source: the international Internet
Lori
@vagina_museum oh no she's gonna poop the baby through her penis
Loafer
@vagina_museum Child using AI: Ah, so baby's do come out of Mom's butt.
Me: *head-desk* oh wait it's worse than that.
ScriptFanix💍⏚ ⸫
@vagina_museum So we now know how AIs procreate. Newborn goes through the penis. Glad I'm not an AI!
Miakoda
@vagina_museum I... I use "shit a dick" as nonsense profanity! It was never meant to be taken seriously by an AI!!!
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