Trace Gilton

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Previously many things.

The Wikipedia entry features a photo of the dark interior of a seemingly closed mall with a Camelot Music storefront barely visible in the darkness
A response from ChatGPT that fails to identify the game shown being played in an image
OpenAI's GPT-5 AI model is shown responding with an error message when asked what is shown in an uploaded image.
Famous roboticists Rodney Brooks and Colin Angle demonstrate a robot baby before going on to found iRobot, makers of the Roomba
An Amazon shopping page showing a "search by photo" set of results - products with only barcodes as images are shown, ranging from $9 to $4,900.
A Wikipedia linking to blogs written by HI-SEAS 4 crew-members who simulated living conditions on Mars. Two out of three of the links no longer work.
A hard drive connected to an adapter, multiple circuit boards and bare wires showing.
An old hard drive where someone has written "Slave" on it in magic marker because this was a secondary drive in a computer.
A series of URLs downloaded from the bookmarking site "Pocket" are shown, with the AI's proposed edits highlighted in red. The AI is adding page titles to URLs by either recalling them from its training data or eliciting them from the URL itself.
Sponsored search results with the second and third computers priced over $300,000
AI prompt: "Here's my listening history for this date in history across many different years! Can you summarize some of the overarching themes, taking the datetime and the type of music into account? Generate a fun report summarizing your findings, using emojis to add detail. End with a recommendation for a new song to listen to, inspired by the list. "
A webpage showing a page of tiny text that would require a magnifying glass to read.
Someone plays a game using colorful game pieces. In subsequent screenshots, AIs try to identify the game from the photo. Google Gemini 2.0 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet fail spectacularly. ChatGPT 4o makes two reasonable guesses and gets the answer after a second message.
Two screenshots show a ChatGPT window giving an accurate and succinct answer to the Philly football team's mascot while Google gives irrelevant, brain-clogging info.
A ChatGPT forensic analysis of a fake photo of the Hollywood sign on fire - a deceptive image that humans voluntarily shared during the January 2025 California wildfires.
Two images compare the responses from Claude AI and ChatGPT 4o chatbots. The Claude response is vague and less detailed in its description, incorrectly identifying elements of the image, which is a still frame from the TV show 'Gumby'.
An unopened foil package containing a vintage America Online software on a 3.5" floppy and a golden AOL Pog, never taken out of its original cardboard frame
If a person could take steps at the speed of an ultrasonic toothbrush's vibrations, they would be "walking" at approximately 81,000 km/h (50,300 mph)-far faster than the Earth's escape velocity (~40,270 km/h). Of course, this is purely theoretical, as it's physically impossible for the human body to achieve such rates
"Crash Accountability Zones": After every car crash, the city installs giant, flashing "CRASH SITE" signs to shame all nearby drivers for creating a "vehicular hazard environment." Public crash reenactments occur monthly to educate others.
Two cell phone boxes sitting next to each other showing a small modern Pixel 9 Pro box compared to a large Google G1 box from 2008.