• deepdivedylan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I get that it’s a bad idea to trust AI to something so important. And that it’s probably going to shock or kill you.

    But since I’m not an electrician, ELI5. What’s wrong with this diagram?

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      3 days ago

      In addition to what the other person said, there’s a wire here connecting the two prongs together. This is a short circuit and would at least blow a breaker and at worst start a fire.

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      3 days ago

      This picture is so frustrating. There’s no apparent source for the “live” wire. But if you tried following this with your real wiring (white, black and green do exist), you would be connecting your hot, neutral and ground lines all together. I doubt it would kill you at 120 V but it would definitely trip your breaker the moment you plug it in, and almost certainly make some nice big arcs.

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        Its ok, the AI predicted this and oriented the prongs incorrectly so there is no chance to accidentally plug it into an outlet.

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      The outlet has three wires (black, white, and green), and the device to be plugged in has three wires (black, white, and green). The whole point of the plug is to connect each color wire to its counterpart, and only to its counterpart.