Comment by wil421

Sadly, they "learned" it from us. People have been doing this sort of shoddy fill work since the dawn of television (and even earlier if you count wildly misplaced / inaccurate textual descriptions).

Judging by the performance of AI agents at Geoguessr I suspect such errors are almost 100% humans:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/testing-ais-geoguessr-geniu...