Are they in line to use the machine? I don’t understand why they’re not fighting over the dispensed peanuts. Hierarchy maybe?
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Crows are socialists
What does a crow gulag looks like?
Very similar to current day capitalist ones
Never been one, you’d have to ask the communist and fascist birds
I wonder if there are any downsides to machines like this. For example, do the birds grow dependent on the machines to survive? If so, what happens if smoking rates drop?
There’s also the concern of the tobacco. Butts aren’t just filters, there’s plenty of sweet addictive nicotine left usually.
What’s the lifespan of a crow? If they have short lives but breed fast, one lean generation won’t be catastrophic, and enough of their young will astor to a tobacco-free world. In reality, the rate of decline in smoking will probably be sufficiently slow that, rather than being a catastrophic cliff, it will be a nudge to prioritise alternative means of sustenance.
This is much more than mildly interesting. I find this fascinating! The crows being so capable. The cleverly constructed symbiotic relationship. The fact that such machines are funded at all. Maybe I’m just jealous of what European countries can do with with public funds 😒
The swedish spelling is amusingly incorrect, so this is probably fake, possibly ai slop.
Maybe you missed the language reform, we spell it hëlpen now /s
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How long till they work out there’s butts in that easily accessible plastic tub and unlocks the infinite peanut glitch.
If the machine can accept an unused cigarette, then they might start stealing them
Win win.
Meanwhile, smoking among Swedish peanut lovers is up 800%
Finish a cigarette and get a snack
TIL crows can read Swedish
Just the swedish ones. I held up a sign in my yard that said free peanuts and some of them came right away but when I held up a swedish sign they all completely ignored me. This was in America though, so they’re likely just uneducated.
That isn’t Swedish, it’s AI gibberish. Ë isn’t a letter in Swedish, and the actual text would be:
FÅGEL RETUR: MAT MOT SKRÄP
TACK FÖR HJÄLPEN
Hmm. If I want a peanut, can I do the same thing?
What kind of second hand smoke do they get? 😁 This is awesome btw.
Mildly infuriating is more like it. This is abusing their intelligence. And describing them as “scouring” the roads for trash does not sound healthy to me. While it’s a neat idea im more concerned about the long term health implications this poses, both physically and mentally, along with any dependence issues if they stop foraging for for other food as a result of this.
Wouldn’t this potentially pose health risks to them?
They simply don’t inhale.
For now. Until they use their intelligence to open the machine!
Is there a place online with plans to make one of these boxes on your own? I would probably just train them to pick up any random trash, but honestly I just want to reward them for interacting with it.
That’s a blackbird ☝️🤓
I think he’s seen just about everything because he’s seen an elephant fly
So uh… Can only crows take advantage of these machines?
What if I finish my smoke and want some peanuts? Can I just put my butt in the machine?
Only if you have a work visa. Don’t want foreigners stealing crow work.
there’s other places with rewards for humans to put their butt into
Nobody on Grindr has ever given my ass peanuts. Is that more of an OnlyFans thing?
Cool study and application for crow-treat exchanges. But the image is AI. That is some gibberish Swedish text.
There are things I don’t understand about the machine that also make me think AI, but Google Translate seems to understand so maybe it isn’t?
Edit: Actually I think AI is better than I thought it would be.
Skråp isn’t a word. It should be Skräp
I assume the last sentence should be dotted because funny…
However the prototype didn’t look like that and Corvid Cleaning is in bankruptcy
Skråp is definitely a word. Never heard of someone getting skråped? Nasti business, skråping.
You’re right (I think, damn timeline) but it’s the sort of AI Slop I can get behind, a call to action. It’s the sort of thing some politician somewhere will look at and go ‘there’s votes in that’ (and there is) and it ends up happening. Art has been used similarly for eons, I’m willing to give this a pass…
It’s still manipulation without disclosure, also it’s an incorrect representation of the product.
A more cogent argument would be they’re enslaving Corvids to the capitalist ideal, but I suspect Corvids are too smart to care…
There’s a product? Are you a bot?
As to manipulation without disclosure, that’s pretty much politics, unfortunately the world we must exist in, for now. Totally agree that should change. Got good ideas ?
Yes, the font is weird, and it wouldn’t make sense to have an LCD screen for that, also with a full steel construction
Actual machine is way less fancy:
Source: the daily mail, so I won’t link that shit
Thank you for not linking that shit.
Thank you. I was perplexed as to why a touch screen was present and how the crows were meant to push a cigarette butt into a card slot. .
What are you talking about? Looks fine to me:
TÄCK FÖR HËLPEN
Eisää peitää!
What is a hëlp and how do we cover it?
Bird return, food for rubbish, thanks for the help?
The help is spelled hjälpen in swedish.
