Post #3603759

2026-07-04 10:47 UTC

@BlakeHamiltonCA@mstdn.ca That image is obviously AI generated and anyone should have caught all the problems with it. For water to be that high on Wellington, the Ottawa river would have had to have flooded 80-ish metres high,a disaster that would affect the entire Ottawa Valley. Why didn't you use one of the *many* photos of the *actual* flooding rather than slop one up? Is the article also AI generated?

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@deathbydenim@mstdn.social 2026-07-04 13:14

@WTL@mastodon.social @BlakeHamiltonCA@mstdn.ca It's especially ironic to use AI-generated images (and content?) to call to highlight climate change issues, given how bad data centres are for the climate!

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@BlakeHamiltonCA@mstdn.ca 2026-07-05 12:10

@WTL@mastodon.social : totally fair criticism on the image. In hindsight it was a bad call on my part. I didn’t actually create it myself - I pulled it from a rushed Google image search for “Ottawa flood 2026”. I was tired, and let the clickbait part of my brain win. That’s on me, and I apologize for that sloppiness. To be clear though my article itself is not AI-generated slop; it’s a carefully researched and properly sourced piece about flood risk, preparedness, insurance, infrastructure and climate adaptation. But yes, the image undermined trust in the work, and that was my mistake. I’ll own that 100%

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