“Among the community of AI researchers and enthusiasts, AI has a reputation **for seeing giraffes everywhere**. Given a random photo of an uninteresting bit of landscape — a pond, for example, or some trees — AI will tend to report the presence of giraffes. **The effect is so common that internet security expert [[Melissa Elliott]] suggested the term giraffing for the phenomenon of AI overreporting relatively rare sights**.” --- **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[artificial-intelligence]], [[ai-problems]], [[teaching-anecdotes]] **Source** — [[202307171347 — B — You Look Like a Thing and I Love You]]