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?
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
Are they in line to use the machine? I don’t understand why they’re not fighting over the dispensed peanuts. Hierarchy maybe?
Edit: answers and video
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
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.
Wouldn’t this potentially pose health risks to them?
They simply don’t inhale.
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
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.
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 😉
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
The crows wrote it. They’re still learning proper Swedish.
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.
Hmm. If I want a peanut, can I do the same thing?
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.
Meanwhile, smoking among Swedish peanut lovers is up 800%
Finish a cigarette and get a snack
What kind of second hand smoke do they get? 😁 This is awesome btw.
The issue is the crows are going to learn about this, and start just fishing rubbish out of bins, because it’s the easiest way to get their reward.
There was once a Parisian dog who kept trying to push children into the Seine, because he had learned that if he ha saved a drowning child he gets tons of rewards.
This phenomenon is called Perverse Incentive , also known as the Cobra Effect.
For people who don’t want to watch a video, here’s the Wikipedia explanation:
The results of a perverse incentive scheme are also sometimes called cobra effects, where people are incentivized to make a problem worse. This name was coined by economist Horst Siebert in 2001 based on a historically dubious anecdote taken from the British Raj. According to the story, the British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped, and the cobra breeders set their snakes free, leading to an overall increase in the wild cobra population.
It really is a shame how humans are so quick to jump on opportunities without caring about a single thing involved in the process…
Sounds like we don’t know if this particular story is true, but that does seem to be a general bit of human nature that we see over and over again
also known as the broken window fallacy
Fucking Cobra Kai
Is the firebug phenomenon part of this?
It’s how corporate America operates.
Or stealing cigarettes from shops
This crow I can support.
Or stealing lit cigarettes out of human mouths. That’s a kind of comedy gold I can get behind.
This is not quite correct, what would happen is that you would get one group of crows teaming up and robbing the unaffiliated hard working crows of their cigarette butts, and you’d get a little crow empire with a King Crow just sitting on top of a mountain of cigarette butts in a posh parking lot and shitting on Lamborghini, Lexus, Cadillacs…
Wait till you hear about humans and capitalism.
For now. Until they use their intelligence to open the machine!
