| ▲ | lukan 4 hours ago |
| No, not really. There was a real wolf and the person dusturbed the operation. "South Korean police have arrested a man for sharing an AI-generated image that misled authorities who were searching for a wolf that had broken out of a zoo in Daejeon city. The 40-year-old unnamed man is accused of disrupting the search by creating and distributing a fake photo purporting to show Neukgu, the wolf, trotting down a road intersection" |
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| ▲ | sillysaurusx 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| But there are real wolves when shepherding too. That’s why crying wolf has any power. To cry wolf is to say there’s a wolf here when it’s actually located elsewhere. The AI photo said there was a wolf at a certain intersection when it was actually located elsewhere. In fact crying wolf is doubly appropriate because it means disturbing an operation looking for a wolf. |
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| ▲ | croes 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Crying wolf is normally starting the operation while there isn‘t a wolf. This is misdirection while there is a wolf Similar but different | | |
| ▲ | weird-eye-issue 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That's completely pedantic and besides it's false because there literally wasn't a wolf there where he faked the photo in the first place | | |
| ▲ | croes 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Crying wolf is crying for help when there is no danger not when there is a danger just at different place. That's not pedantic, that's the meaning of the idiom. | | |
| ▲ | fc417fc802 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | If you stipulate that everyone must be relaxing at the time, sure. But the core concept of crying wolf is IMO simply a false alert with no particular constraints placed on those responding. I think in this case it simultaneously qualifies as crying wolf as well as misdirection. | | |
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| ▲ | croes an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | But this isn't a false alert. The alert is real, people just got misdirected. | | |
| ▲ | weird-eye-issue 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It was a false alert in that particular place. I doubt those residents who were alerted had felt like they were previously in immediate danger. |
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| ▲ | weird-eye-issue an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is real life there's always a danger just at a different place. |
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| ▲ | bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | what if the real criers of wolves were the sheeple we misled along the way? |
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| ▲ | 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | heliumtera 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | le reddit mentality |
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| ▲ | psychoslave 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The biggest difference now is wolf is actually sought to protect him¹ from the crowd of the super-predators in town, so they can "give him a calm environment for recovery". ¹ Following pronoun variant used in the fine article here. |
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| ▲ | shlant 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| what an incredibly dumb thread this is. OP pointed out something amusing and it's being ruined by completely useless pedantry |
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| ▲ | pj_mukh 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If this was America there would be 20 think pieces in the Atlantic about how AI is ruining our culture and no one would get arrested. |
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| ▲ | PUSH_AX 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > the person dusturbed the operation Did they? The article says it's unclear as to their intent. > Authorities did not specify if the man had intentionally sent the photo to authorities during their search or simply shared it online. |
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| ▲ | lukan 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Intent or not, it did disturb as it misslead. And .. how can one imagine not disturb a search, when posting a wrong location? |
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| ▲ | moron4hire 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| There was a real wolf in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", too. |
