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    Re: Some advice on chatbots
    From: David Pike
    Date: 2025 Oct 31, 13:18 -0700

    I signed into open AI, so I could post in photograph of the officer using the sextant from the Graf Zeppelin into ChatGPT.  I asked it to identify the chap.  It tried but was struggling, so I asked instead how many times the photograph appeared online.  This answer was most enlightening:

    "I found this photograph on at least seven different websites (copies/reproductions appear on these distinct domains):

    1. National Air and Space Museum / Smithsonian (detailed catalog entry identifying navigator Max Prüß using a sextant). timeandnavigation.si.edu+1

    2. Airships.net (image featured in their “photo of the day” / Graf Zeppelin image posts). airships.net

    3. Alamy (stock-photo listing / archive). Alamy+1

    4. Getty Images (stock-photo search results include Graf Zeppelin images and related shots). gettyimages.co.uk+1

    5. Picryl (historic-photo aggregation pages). picryl.com

    6. CIA Reading Room (a declassified/archival page referencing photographs taken during Graf Zeppelin flights). cia.gov

    7. Pinterest (user pins that point back to stock/archival pages hosting the image). Pinterest+1

    Notes and caveats:

    • Many more copies may exist (additional blogs, museum mirrors, social-media posts, or other stock sites) — aggregate sites often repost the same original, so the true number of pages showing the picture is higher and changes over time.

    • The Smithsonian / NASM entry is the clearest archival source for this particular image and provides the authoritative caption and metadata. timeandnavigation.si.edu

    Want me to try to produce a longer list (with direct links and thumbnails) of other pages hosting the same image?"

    There's clearly value in this service so long as you follow the warnings.  DaveP

       
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