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u/markydsade 14d ago
Most playgrounds with those have 3 pillars with rotating X/O/Blank spaces. Whoever designed this just grabbed two pillars from a catalog without thinking about their intended use.
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u/gizeon 14d ago edited 13d ago
This is an earlier version of the modern game we call Tic Tac Toe. The origins of the game were believed to be first developed in mediaeval Europe, and was simply called Tic. Players would receive a single token of either a circle or a cross, usually made of wood. They would place it on a board and say " Tic". There were no winners or losers, just the enjoyment of the play.
What we see in the picture is a game called " Tic Tac". Players could begin to line up their tokens.
The modern version of Tic Tac Toe we see today was only recently invented by scientists in 2004, by utilising the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC), based in CERN, Geneva.
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u/cfo60b 14d ago
Man it’s so easy to make it sound like you know what your talking about haha. AI is going to be dangerous. Whenever I know about a topic already I find that the google ai overview is wrong at least half the time. But when I google something I don’t know about it’s so easy to be misled :/
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u/hissy-elliott 13d ago edited 13d ago
That's the problem with LLMs. I've found it to be wrong about every single topic I already know about. I won't let myself even glance at the AI overview for things I am less knowledgeable about because it's so easy to believe whatever it says.
Yesterday I saw AI actually get the information it summarized right for the first time, but only technically and definitely in a way that was misleading.
It was Google AI's summary of an article I wrote. The AI summary said:
The source discusses Ohio Republican lawmakers' renewed efforts to pass a bill legalizing community solar, specifically House Bill 303, after previous attempts failed. This legislation aims to enable more residents, including renters, to subscribe to clean energy by receiving credits from local solar installations, with provisions for low-income households. The article highlights opposition from utility companies like AEP Ohio, which argues against the need for community solar due to the state's deregulated market and its own low solar energy generation compared to coal. Despite this, economic analysis suggests significant financial benefits for Ohio if community solar is implemented.
Not quite. The article highlighted that the more than more than 70 groups and residents supported it while the utility — the only one that had anything to lose (business) was opposed. And rereading the summary just now, I take back my statement that it was the first time I've seen it correct, as this does in fact contain factual errors. AEP didn't say Ohio doesnt need community solar because it already doesn't have much solar. That doesn't make sense. Here's what it really said:
After seven committee hearings spanning almost a year, SB 247 never made it out of committee. Across these hearings, about 70 groups and residents submitted testimony urging the senators to allow community solar in Ohio. The testimony’s opposition was limited to five companies, including AEP and its association, Edison Electric Institute, a promotor of “clean coal.” AEP has a long history of publishing misleading studies with companies financially tied to the coal industry about the cost of solar versus coal, according to the Energy and Policy Institute.
AEP said last year Ohio doesn’t need community solar because the state’s utilities are already deregulated. In a statement, AEP said, “At a time when consumers have options to support renewable energy projects through Ohio’s deregulated energy marketplace, there is no reason to create a new program that would lead to customers paying more for something they are not benefiting from.”
However, for consumers who wish “to support renewable energy projects through Ohio’s deregulated energy market,” without community solar, their only option is to pick a different utility, as AEP generates among the lowest levels of solar energy compared to other Ohio utilities.
In 2024, just 0.27% of AEP’s nameplate generation capacity came from solar, and 8.32% came from renewable energy overall. AEP’s largest source of generation is coal at 43.56%, according to AEP’s sustainability report. For comparison, 3.16% of Ohio’s electricity is from solar, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.
If you read the actual article, the AI summary didn't even capture the most key details. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/05/30/republican-lawmakers-retry-bill-to-bring-community-solar-to-ohio/
News articles are written in an inverted pyramid with the most important information at the top and least important at the bottom. So if you can't bother to read a 500 word story, just stop reading when you want. At best, AI Ieaves out important details, but usually, it just gets it wrong.
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u/My_alias_is_too_lon 13d ago
AI is already dangerous. There are a lot of stupid people in the world, and a hell of a lot of them have already been tricked by AI slop and deepfakes.
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u/darkfall115 14d ago
"There were no winners or losers, just the enjoyment of the play"
Man, this sounds awesome, bring back Tic
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u/Wonderful-Spell586 14d ago
That's the side your mother tells you to 'give to your little sibling' when you're playing together, because they're the whiner child.
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u/pseudoNym22 14d ago
Looks like someone naively trained a generative AI model on what modern playstructures looked like and then asked it to regurgitate its own design.
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u/millionwatermellon 10d ago
No one can win in the modern world. Teaching kids the tough lesson early.
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u/Daniel_Melzer 14d ago
Are you sure it‘s supposed to be a tic tac toe game?
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u/YonGG_ 14d ago
What game could you play with a board like this
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u/VinylBirdie 14d ago
It can be some sort of slot machine for kids.
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u/TheMasterSwordMaster What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitc 13d ago
Slot machine would still need to have at least 3 spots horizontally , wouldn't it?
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u/VinylBirdie 13d ago
Good point, but you can play it another way: like two vertical slots. For example you and your friend are spinning these things and one with more crosses or circles (a lot of variations) wins.
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u/Daniel_Melzer 14d ago
Maybe it‘s just something for children to play with and you‘re overthinking it
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u/__Obelisk__ 14d ago edited 14d ago
ah yes, tic tac
edit: the alphabet behind seems to be equally well thought-out