LLMs and Subversive Drones Against Surveillance

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I had an obvious idea to deal with the Flock security cameras: an anonymous drone that would fly to the camera, and then spray paint the lens, rendering the camera useless.

a small autonomous drone that will fly to surveillance cameras and spray paint the lens

Grok won:

The image on the right is pretty good. It would probably need a way to put the can nozzle outside of the radius of the propellers. I’d guess something like a rigid cage, wider than the diameter of the drone, with two or four cans of stripe marking paint strapped to it, nozzles pointed down and out to the circumference, to balance it out. The nozzles could be controlled by some kind of solenoid.

Gemini had some of it correct, but produced something surreal.

Meta AI also failed, spectacularly, producing a drone that is a security camera.