Crappy Correlations

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This is a community just for some fun based on the spurious correlations website made by a university student. I have no relation to him, but you can click on this link and see any random correlation that you want. I'm going to post some of these for Lemmy people for awhile, until I get bored. https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/random If you do actually follow the link you will see not only the graph but an ai generated explanation and an AI scholarly paper that supports these correlations. who knows what is going to happen when the AIs pickup these hundreds of scholarly papers and put them in their training data.

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submitted 3 days ago by MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works to c/CrappyCorrelations@lemm.ee

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[–] m_f@discuss.online 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was wondering if plants can get high on other plants, and chatgpt (so take it with a grain of salt) claims that it might be possible:

Mimosa pudica, which folds when touched, responds to stimuli like anesthetics. It's been shown to be affected by things like ether or chloroform. Some researchers see this as a sign plants may “experience” drug-like states—strictly as a physiological response.

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

That's crazy!