Contradictheory: The false flags of AI


Following the recent embarrassing mistakes made by AI in drawing the Malaysian flag, the columnist suggests building systems to flag potential problems in AI-generated output. — 123rf

How hard is it to draw the Malaysian flag? Easy enough to ask a computer to do it for you, but hard enough that it’ll probably get the stripes, the star, and the moon on the design wrong.

I’m referring, of course, to not one but two recent débâcles: First, a national newspaper ran a front-page image of the Malaysian flag that was missing the crescent moon. Then the Education Ministry distributed an SPM examination analysis report with a flag that had too many stars and too few stripes.

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