Can ChatGPT be used to identify a tartan?

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Taking advice from a true fountain of wisdom (Obi Wan Kenobi), this morning I remembered his "there IS no TRY, there is only DO."

So, I DID just visit the ChatGPT Website and showed its LLM the JPEG I'd snapped from a video while spinning on the exercise bike yesterday.

Less than a five seconds later, the bot responded with the correct answer: "Loud Macleod, or "MacLeod of Lewis"

I was SO amazed I decided to confirm the bot's intuition by checking the Scottish Registry of Tartans. The input "MacLeod" returned MANY choices, but none of them what I'd seen on the singer. However, when I input "MacLeod of Lewis" it revealed what I'd seen, but also besmirched my sense of good taste, noting that it was one of the "from thin air" creations of the Sobieski Stewarts!

If you're saying that ChatGTP identified this as MacLeod then it's wrong and the diagnosis is a fine example of the maxim Rubbish In-Rubbish Out.

The tartan is Ayrshire Gold, a 2023 fashion design by Clyde Kilts, an Ayrshire based retailer.



As if one wasn't bad enough, they also do an Ayrshire Silver.