Posted by Gaishan 16 hours ago
I can't even read it on my small phone screen and I'll be d*mned if I have to zoom in
But maybe it's too much to ask of modern Americans to understand that spellings of proper nouns can and do change over time.
Remember that big hot war in the 90s?
And there was that thing in the 40s, too . . .
Ah, when the Servians shot down the invisible airplane, because they didn't see it. I remember :-)
Is this AI-generated? It certainly has all the signs of being so.
I've read real books from the late 19th and early 20th century, and while occasional typos do appear, their density here is suspicious.
Thus my conclusion is that I don't think this is a real 8th grade test.
https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam191... - on the answers page they also acknowledge the typo on "eneeavor".
https://headsup.scoutlife.org/would-you-pass-this-test/ - 2013
I believe the misspellings in the spelling section are intentional so that the student will identify them—I am guessing that’s the point.
"Decline I" is a request to decline the pronoun "I".
Edit: there's also "secrate" and "Pres dent"
edit: The test seems to come from this page from the county's museum: https://www.bullittcountyhistory.com/bchistory/schoolexam191.... The WayBack machine records the first snapshot in 2012, so AI seems unlikely.
They note the spelling errors
> Note that there are several typesetting mistakes on the test including a mistake in the spelling list. The word "eneeavor" should be "endeavor." This version of the exam was probably a master version given out to the schools (note that the spelling words wouldn’t be written on a test.) The museum has been told that the exam was handed out in a scroll form (that is why the paper is long.) The typos would have been corrected simply by contacting the teachers and telling them to mark their copies accordingly, much like would be done today. And there might not be quite as many typos as you think; "Serbia" for example was indeed spelled "Servia" back then.
Current generation LLMs does not make smelling mistakes, only humans do.
Even the best of existing image generation models often spell words hilariously wrong when asked to generate an image containing text.
But sometimes their messassage gets mangled in intersting ways
(To be clear, I don't believe this is actually generated by AI, but in this case, but since we're looking at an image, I can see why some people might be concerned that it might be AI given the misspellings.)
But yes in general it's a reasonable concern to have.
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/fcell...