I asked Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview to make an XKCD-style diagram of a CME’s effects on electrojets. This was a one-shot!
It’s also completely wrong. The most egregious error is repeatedly portraying the Earth’s magnetic field as a sphere (magnetic fields can never form spheres) - unless it’s not bothering to show the magnetic field at all?
Yeah I nearly included a GIF from a Kurzgesagt video where the actual mechanism of the CME’s magnetic field “linking up” with our own is animated, and it shows the movement and shape correctly. But I didn’t want to go into depth concerning that specifically, and decided to omit it.
I think most people have already seen a representation of our magnetic field and can understand for the sake of that diagram that it’s an artist’s representation of the magnetic field for simplicity. Also the field isn’t even the interest of Gemini’s diagram, the electrojets are, and they’re shown correctly.
In the left hand picture, it shows electrojets in 3 places: the equatorial electrojets near the equator (correct), the auroral electrojets near the equator (wrong), and the equatorial electrojets in the mid latitudes (wrong).
The “totally reversed” equatorial electrojet in the right hand picture points the same direction as the one in the left hand picture.
The auroral electrojets in the right hand picture are 2 rotating ovals near the pole. Actual auroral electrojets lie along the auroral ring around the pole. Normally, there are two of them, pointing in the nightside direction. During a substorm, one of these strengthens and can become strong enough to reverse the other—forming a complete ring around the pole.
Another figure, which shows what the auroral electrojets actually look like, under normal conditions.
Even if this part of the picture were correct, a scientific diagram that does not contain relevant true information (like the magnetic field of the Earth, or which side of the Earth is day), but does include a bunch of false information (the ionosphere is lower than the atmosphere, the magnetosphere is centered on the sun, reconnection happens inside the atmosphere at the boundary of the gray lumpy ionosphere, etc), is a bad diagram.
I tried finagling with the model to get these changed, but that only made things worse. I’ve edited the caption to reroute to this thread, as I think it’s a little valuable to leave the original as a state of current AI capabilities. Thanks for these corrections.
It’s also completely wrong. The most egregious error is repeatedly portraying the Earth’s magnetic field as a sphere (magnetic fields can never form spheres) - unless it’s not bothering to show the magnetic field at all?
Here’s an actual diagram:
Yeah I nearly included a GIF from a Kurzgesagt video where the actual mechanism of the CME’s magnetic field “linking up” with our own is animated, and it shows the movement and shape correctly. But I didn’t want to go into depth concerning that specifically, and decided to omit it.
I think most people have already seen a representation of our magnetic field and can understand for the sake of that diagram that it’s an artist’s representation of the magnetic field for simplicity. Also the field isn’t even the interest of Gemini’s diagram, the electrojets are, and they’re shown correctly.
No, they’re not.
In the left hand picture, it shows electrojets in 3 places: the equatorial electrojets near the equator (correct), the auroral electrojets near the equator (wrong), and the equatorial electrojets in the mid latitudes (wrong).
The “totally reversed” equatorial electrojet in the right hand picture points the same direction as the one in the left hand picture.
The auroral electrojets in the right hand picture are 2 rotating ovals near the pole. Actual auroral electrojets lie along the auroral ring around the pole. Normally, there are two of them, pointing in the nightside direction. During a substorm, one of these strengthens and can become strong enough to reverse the other—forming a complete ring around the pole.
Another figure, which shows what the auroral electrojets actually look like, under normal conditions.
Even if this part of the picture were correct, a scientific diagram that does not contain relevant true information (like the magnetic field of the Earth, or which side of the Earth is day), but does include a bunch of false information (the ionosphere is lower than the atmosphere, the magnetosphere is centered on the sun, reconnection happens inside the atmosphere at the boundary of the gray lumpy ionosphere, etc), is a bad diagram.
I tried finagling with the model to get these changed, but that only made things worse. I’ve edited the caption to reroute to this thread, as I think it’s a little valuable to leave the original as a state of current AI capabilities. Thanks for these corrections.