I was curious and found we do actually have plugs with those pin orientations.

It's 240v though, which means two live wires on opposing phases shorted together and connected to the appliances ground wire... Even better.

DO NOT TRUST ANY AI TECHNICAL DRAWING

FTFY

It was legit a little scary how long I stared at this diagram in utter bewilderment.

It's 2025 and the tech bros have made it where I can't believe my own lying eyes.

Just a heads up, those diagrams are also insufficient on their own. They don’t indicate which line goes to the wide blade and which goes to the narrow blade on the plug. Getting that backwards on some devices can cause switching and fusing to be on the wrong line and defeat certain circuit and safety protections.

Much as I encourage people to fix their own things, wiring AC mains connections is one of those “if you have to ask, you probably shouldn’t” kind of things.

Except when white is hot for odd light switch layouts. (Which should be wrapped in black tape, but you know Shady DYI or I Know a Guy electricians.)

As another PSA, if you reply on comments like this to go about wiring anything electrical, do yourself a favor and call a professional.

In the US*

Cropping is a lost art that was under appreciated in its time. Oddly, I see it done less even though it’s become substantially easier to do over time, with the tools often built into whatever took the screenshot.

Honestly doesn't look particularly dangerous. I think this nets you a ground neutral connection with two test points?

Would it be useful? Absolutely not. Dangerous? p Probably not.

In addition to what the other person said, there's a wire here connecting the two prongs together. This is a short circuit and would at least blow a breaker and at worst start a fire.

This picture is so frustrating. There's no apparent source for the "live" wire. But if you tried following this with your real wiring (white, black and green do exist), you would be connecting your hot, neutral and ground lines all together. I doubt it would kill you at 120 V but it would definitely trip your breaker the moment you plug it in, and almost certainly make some nice big arcs.

The outlet has three wires (black, white, and green), and the device to be plugged in has three wires (black, white, and green). The whole point of the plug is to connect each color wire to its counterpart, and only to its counterpart.

This diagram is the same as sticking a fork in all 3 holes on an outlet.

This isn't the outlet, it's the plug that goes into the outlet. Presuming you had it would fit into (the plugs are oriented wrong), it would be about as safe as shoving a fork in instead.

Neutral is also wired to live. Isn't that a short circuit?

The next diagram it hallucinates may be lethal though.

That ground wire goes directly to the metal casing of the appliance.

But those images are hosted by companies other than Google. You might visit those sites instead of staying on a Google-owned domain where they can keep making money off of you.

Ahh, you must be a fellow viewer of ElectroBOOM.

Gemini says don't use breakers.

Is it me, or do people actively celebrate the death of weak people? It is quite unnerving.

That's a text response, this post is about image generation. Gemini is okay at finding stuff on google to show you, it's basically like a 'Let me Google that for you' machine. The problem is when you ask it to make something new.

Behold, the image response I got using your prompt:

You're in trouble if you also have a broken neutral somewhere.

But yes, the most likely outcome is breaker goes pop.

color-coded screws? wtf

this shorts live and neutral, ground pin is not even present (different shape) otoh if you need help wiring a plug, you probably shouldn't

Bend over and I'll show you

My understanding is not much better. It’s send electrons across wire.