That’s AI (Avian Intelligence)
Why don’t we just train the crows to peck out the eyes of people that throw cigarette butts on the ground in the first place?
Great. Now they consume all the bad chemicals in those…
TÄCK FÖR HËLPEN
Absolute cinema
That image is not real. I wouldn’t trust anything from a “source” that uses AI generated images in their “journalism”.
Which German publication is that? So we can shame them.
I didn’t notice the picture but I spent a solid 5 minutes in existential grammar crisis about “Erdnüsse gegen Zigarettenstümmel eintauschen”. Because to me it reads like they gave peanuts to get cigarette buds.
OP, please change the title, you’re spreading misinformation. The image is AI, this isn’t a thing past some prototypes and the company is in bankruptcy.
But their social media hype campaign worked and will be regurgitated as feel good news for a few years. Ghost hype trains still go choochoo!
Just report the post…
There is no way Sweden would do this. They would just ban cigarettes altogether and skip the middle bird.
I genuinely would not put it past them, and I probably wouldn’t think it’s a bad idea lol.
I haven’t read the whole thing yet but I couldn’t find anything about the effect picking up this toxic shit has on the birds’ health. I can’t imagine this is healthy for them.
Beaks are not mouths. And they’re not ingesting and regurgitating them. So I doubt there’s enough toxic compounds leaking into the crows for it to be a problem in their lifetime.
If anything, it’s far better that crows recycle them, than other birds eating or building neats out of them.
What’s toxic in the cigarretes is the smoke so birdies should be safe.
and where does the smoke pass trough when it enters the smokers mouth?
this is simply false. the filter filters out a lot of things. sure, the smoke is still very toxic, but a lot of schmoo gets stuck in the filter. if you then put that filter in your mouth, they leech out into you.
But crow has no “mouth” - it has a beak. Not only is it drier than human mouth so saliva doesn’t act to extract that shit, but it’s also extended so the filter won’t touch anything able to leech into.
this is my first thought. Instead of draconically punishing the assholes littering in the first place, we poison a little more of nature :(
So what’s the take away from rhis ? humans can’t be trained not to throw cig butts out ?
And take away jobs from crows? Are you trying to start a war we can not win?
Couldn’t be done in the US. There’s so many starving people they’d be raiding ashtrays to get fed.
Same job. Same pay.
What a great scheme.
Crows are susceptible to chronic liver disease if they live in urban areas (particularly near restaurants or markets). I looked it up because it’s happened to a few crows in my urban area who have grown long, thin deformed beaks, and I was curious what was causing it - apparently a fat-heavy diet which leads to chronic disease is the most common cause. They can also get sick or diseased from scavenging tainted or toxic food.
I can’t find any info for crows being able to contract diseases from humans, so it’s low risk for them collecting cigarette waste.
So this scheme is win-win - crows adapted to urban areas pick up litter with no (or very low) risk to themselves, get safe and nutritious food.
so, if the disease comes from a fat-heavy diet, how is peanuts any better? With 12,0 g fat, 1,9 g carbs and 7,4 g proteins it is quite fat-heavy?
Also: what about the health effects of collecting cigarette buds? I couldn’t find any info in the article about that.
Now we are making crows work too 😞
Their intelligence will be their downfall.
Humans are actually not very intelligent. You can look at our societies and see how we are all stuck, spending our life working just so we can pay the bills.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I’m fairly aware that I’m trapped, and I am not content at all. But I have little time, energy, and space to pivot. I got the most progress while unemployed.
Rn I’m almost 100% kitted out, I just need to make my own money, and I can finally focus on what really matters.
Humans are quite intelligent, its just the architects of this system is slightly better and are lucky enough to be in the position to built this giant machine, and the enslaved wage workers are too busy to have time for independent thought, not stupid, literally exhausted from just trying to survive. Exactly. As. Designed.
Yeah. If the machine would grind to an halt and give people time to think, it would wake them up, at least to a degree.
Most are just running in the hamster wheel all their life.
Unless I missed something, it seems like the crows are doing it voluntarily. Is that not the case?
Ah they like to pick up toxic shit that smokers are too lazy to.
Aren’t we all working voluntarily? Or are some of us enslaved property?
oh you sweet child… bless your heart.
Some people won’t be happy until the tyranny of extrinsic motivation is entirely banished. I wish them well, so I try to keep them motivated with little treats at semi-random intervals.
I like that it has a display, as if crows can read.
If it is meant merely to inform humans of its purpose, why not a simple sign instead of a screen?
Or is the screen somehow used to train the birds?
The text on the screen is gibberish Swedish, so likely the image is AI generated.
It’s translated from squawk
Next you’ll tell me that the Swedish chef singing bork bork bork isn’t real Swedish either
That isn’t mildly interesting. It’s extremely interesting.
more like extremely infuriating.
I think it would be a lot easier to train humans to stop throwing cigarette butts on the ground
Or even to train other humans to tell humans not to do that
Or train other humans to penalize, threaten or punish other humans who throw cigarette butts on the ground
That’s what we’ve tried for hundreds of years and it didn’t work.
Turns out it’s easier to turn to a more intelligent species 😉
I think it would be really hard. The humans in charge of humans would just form some sort of in-group and stop enforcing the original rule.
