Magic wire! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 05:28:44 pm
content: Ok, this has to be AI-generated slop:https://www.awcwire.com/power-cable-and-portable-cord/gto-15-neon-sign-wireQuoteUh huh. Right!QuoteIt comes in any color, as long as it's black. And in exactly one style...I don't understand why a company would fill its own website with such slop. It certainly doesn'timproveanything...

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 06:29:30 pm
content: AI to Google AI:Source: GoogleQuoteIt's just an insulted wire with a voltage rating of about 10kV to 15kV. What's the concern?EDIT: As for advertising puffery, there are almost no limits on it in the US. Caveat emptor.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 06:32:09 pm
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on September 18, 2024, 06:29:30 pmUmmm... did you read the quoted text? I bolded the ridiculous AI marketing hallucinations.

author: shabaz
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 08:04:35 pm
content: A friend hires low-cost overseas people to help him with his website since it's not a major strategic part of his business.They tend to do what appears to be a similarish thing to his website, i.e. if he doesn't keep in close contact, they won't wait around for text input, and will fill locations with garbage/trash placeholders and images that they think might be approximately right, and rely on it being brought up later to change to what is actually desired.Definitely a weird way of working, since there's a risk of that garbage accidentally remaining. I thought they were unique in that, but maybe it's a more widespread practise.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 08:10:04 pm
content: Well, the whole page is amazing. Also look at the "GTO-15 Applications" part. It just reads like some bad translation from a chinese text to me. Which I'm suspecting it is.The best part is that this is a US company. Apparently.My overall guess here: they sell stuff imported from China and get the descriptions probably from the chinese seller, which themselves have probably used some AI to translate it.

author: jpanhalt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 08:24:43 pm
content: @Tooki,It's puffery. Anyone could say a light bulb works as designed without an electrical supply. That is, it's not designed to produce light without electricity. Yes, I find such puffery disgusting, but it is not inaccurate. I once lost on a point in court where the company had stated a certain item was engineered to do something. In fact, no licensed or even graduate engineer ever looked at the design. The court considered that allowable puffery in the US.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 08:57:16 pm
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on September 18, 2024, 08:24:43 pmI think you did not read the actual text I quoted, and you definitely completely missed the point.One of the statements is that "[Neon signs] do not need electrical power to work." That is unequivocally, demonstraby false. They canexistwithout power, and their behavior without power is predictable, but they do notworkwithout it.I don't think it's "puffery". It's AI hallucination.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 10:48:16 pm
content: Quote from: jpanhalt on September 18, 2024, 08:24:43 pmThis is a good thing, engineered is a word that simply means skillfully designed, it is not a protected term.Sadly in Canada its the opposite.