Remember the time Queen Elizabeth II visited Westport?
Neither do I.
But check out the internet:
Queen Elizabeth II visited Westport, Connecticut in 1954. Some people who were there remember the event, and the Remarkable Theater in Westport honored her with a showing of “The Queen.”
That’s a remarkable statement. And not just because the Remarkable Theater did not exist until 66 years later.
It’s remarkable because it did not happen.
And even more remarkable because artificial intelligence says it did.
Queen Elizabeth, circa 1954.
Local resident Gary Shure is on vacation this week. The other day he drove through Westport, New Zealand — the scenic South Island town that is one of about 2 dozen Westports scattered around the world.
He Googled the queen, and Westport CT. AI — which now appears at the top of many Google searches — quickly returned the utter nonsense that a year after her coronation, Queen Elizabeth II came to our town.
It’s much more likely that the new queen visited our New Zealand counterpart. They’re part of the British Commonwealth, after all.
The United States, meanwhile, fought a famous war to get away from the royal family.
Welcome to Westport, New Zealand, that is.
What Google — the non-AI version of it, anyway — does say is that the Remarkable Theater did show the movie “The Queen” in September 2022, shortly after the long-reigning monarch’s death.
Artificial intelligence is good for many things.
But it remains just that: artificial.
Meanwhile, remember the time King George came to Westport, and had tea with George Washington at Marvin Tavern?
That was a remarkable day in our town’s history, for “shure.”
Queen Elizabeth II, in Westport, Connecticut. (Photo courtesy of News12).
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I guess maybe we have an airport too:
https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/16343
How long has AI been doing Westport’s thinking for it?
(probably since long before there was the “real” AI)
I could swear (our) Westport did have a small airport once, where Coley El is now?
That’s it! I’ll start an “AI” rumor that our government is being taken over by a bunch of far far far right wing people who’s crowning achievement this week has been to become a major asset to Putin furthering their primary objective – to control the World with, yep Putin. Then perhaps American’s will stop living in paralysis & denial. Very foxy (sorry fox) use of AI + social media don’t you think? Speak up, discuss what’s going on with your family & friends – no social graces are helpful here. I have gone out of my comfort zone to post this here. The most brilliant analysis on of the consequences by a French Senator on Tuesday. It takes an outsider to hold up the mirror we need. https://youtu.be/unSSHfIs3U0?si=qbHUJ43EScRRC1pQ
That is a great blog entry! Absolute fun to read. Thank you, Dan.