Expect rain in Whata Bod.
How’s the weather looking in Whata Bod, Idaho? Only AI can tell you. The National Weather Service recently posted a weather map on social media that was AI-generated and included several entirely made-up town names.
In a post that has since been deleted and replaced by a seemingly still AI-generated but less error-riddled version, the official National Weather Service X account for Missoula, Montana, shared a map that showed a 10% chance of high winds in “Orangeotild” and lesser gusts in “Whata Bod,” two towns that do not exist. The map also included geographical errors, according to the , the result of NWS deciding to leave the generation of this information up to AI.
It’s not the first time this has happened. In November, the NWS office in Rapid City, South Dakota, posted a wind map to X that included misspelled town names. That image, which is still live on the account, included a Google Gemini watermark in the lower right-hand corner, indicating the image was generated with Google’s AI model.
