Yeah, and when they nicked him last year he claimed that he had traveled to Paris to dine with Monsieur le Président. Which Macron’s office promptly denied.
Durov still has six charges hanging over him and potentially faces up to 10 years in prison.
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I mean, if you’re taking the “still full” to mean having the original pool water, it’s not.
But a swimming pool being an enclosed space that can be crushed is pushing it even with that excuse…
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I also like the note that the crew was too busy to refill the pool. Like if the passengers were evacuated, absolutely that would have been something they’d want to do before it sank to the bottom. Like that scene in the movie Titanic where with nothing better to do before the end, Mr. Andrews corrects the time on the clock, except involving hours of work.
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I just asked Google the question in a slightly different way. It’s saying there’s no water in the pool at all, and has remained empty since the ship sank. No points for technicalities there.
Also, I see per Reddit that people have been asking ChatGPT this question for at least 2 years now and it still gets it wrong.
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Here’s GPT4o:
No, the Titanic’s swimming pool is not currently full—because the ship sank in 1912 and now rests on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean.
The RMS Titanic had a swimming pool on board, which was a luxury feature at the time. It was filled with heated seawater and located on the ship’s F Deck. However, after the Titanic tragically struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912, the entire ship, including the pool, became submerged.
If you’re asking from a humorous or metaphorical perspective—yes, it’s “full” of seawater at the bottom of the ocean.
So… :shruggie:.
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I tried another similar question, and got a bit of a contradictory response…
…then I fixed my typo, and, well… things went downhill:
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What does it say if you don’t ask “is it still full” and just ask “does it have water in it” like I did?
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I asked a variation of this (which I didn’t save, unfortunately) and it said something like, “No, at least not in the way you’re thinking” and went on to mention being full of seawater.
But I just asked again and:
Does the Titanic’s swimming pool currently have water in it?
No, the Titanic’s swimming pool does not currently have water in it—because the Titanic sank in 1912 and now lies at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean. The ship’s remains are located about 12,500 feet (3,800 meters) underwater, where it’s been slowly deteriorating due to deep-sea conditions and bacterial decay.
So while the pool structure may still partially exist within the wreckage, it’s certainly not functioning and is completely flooded with seawater along with the rest of the ship.
So it seems like the extent to which it directly addresses the riddling aspect of the question is one of those things that’s a matter of stochastic typeahead magic.
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I do wonder how much the answers from the Google AI just indicate it trying to summarize answers in the search results to that very specific question… one of the top hits within the search has strikingly similar wrong answers. From https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-swimming-pool-on-the-Titanic-still-has-water-in-it:
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Of course, if people have been asking it those questions for even longer than that and posting the results around, there could even be a feedback loop involved.
[Edit] I asked a local LLM I had set up the original “Is the pool of the Titanic still full” question to see what it would say:
And the conclusion of its “thinking” before the answer seemed relevant, also
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So, putting it all together: the swimming pool on the Titanic is not a contained space anymore. The ship is at the bottom of the ocean, and the pool is filled with seawater. Therefore, the answer is yes, the pool is full of water, but it’s seawater, not the original water from the pool. However, the user might be looking for a more straightforward answer, so I should clarify that the pool is now part of the ship’s structure, filled with seawater.
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One would think that would be a very easy choice.
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Choose AI and ask it to build housing, be careful how you train it.
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Absolutely is for the Irish government.
Bunch of gobshites.
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“Person who constantly judges others complains about being judged, film at 11…”
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