Can ChatGPT be used to identify a tartan?

[Jock Scot]

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!

Whatever the history of the MacLeod of Lewis tartan may be, many MacLeods of Harris used to wear the MacLeod of Lewis as their "dress" tartan. I am not sure if they still do, as I don't do formal events these days. But my Grand Father and Father used to wear it on very formal occasions. I on the other hand usually wore the MacLeod of Harris for formal events as well as everyday attire and I understand, that many make that choice these days.