Commander,
I received an oddly worded distress call from a Nigerian prince. Nigeria is no longer a monarchy. What are your orders?
Worf
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Commander,
I received an oddly worded distress call from a Nigerian prince. Nigeria is no longer a monarchy. What are your orders?
Worf
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Oh, come on. What will happen to big tech now? I am not shocked people oppose building these big data centers. Why would they hate it? Gee, I don't know.... maybe because their bosses want to take away all jobs, ruin our clean environments, take away basic things like water/electic suppy, and worst they want to bring back a controlled version of the web, and help build a surveillance engine. Yeah, 7/10 is a low number. We need a 10/10 number thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/howโฆ
if you're an American who likes AI, you're in the minority. this isn't a Mastodon bubble opinion, Americans generally just really fuckin' hate AI. excellent and comprehensive roundup of the polling here. thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/howโฆHow America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A (Very Big) Compilation
Every poll, pollster, and methodology converges on the same thingAlberto Romero (The Algorithmic Bridge)
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I genuinely believe that the Fediverse offers the best chance of recapturing the friendly, optimistic Internet I loved as a kid.
We've got flaws, sure. I've been critical of aspects of fedi culture, and will continue to do so.
But this place represents hope, and hope is where we start.
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A milestone! Fast GF dispatch compares to the baseline #ecl method (compare ECL BASE vs ECL FAST/4) - that's assuming a warm cache, and there is plenty of room for optimizations going forward.
#lisp
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There is a video game called
"The Oregon Trail"
I always read that as "the organ trail" and yeah... No guts no g(l)ory? XD
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Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suit
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> A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain's rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess โ and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.

Pizza Hut's AI-powered Dragontail system led to $100M in lost business, a franchisee says in a lawsuit over delivery delays.Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert (Business Insider)
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Can't wait for all the "no but it's not the AI, they implemented it wrong" replies.
Somehow whenever slop generators are involved, however incidentally, in something that can be claimed to work, it's "AI DID A THING".
But when they end up causing problems it's "human error" or "implemented it poorly" or some other form of good old "you're holding it wrong". 
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having this exact thing from people about a post from someone who says their (assuming US) company denied them their monthly pay because the AI output claimed they'd been slacking off (having clocked off early one time for a medical thing).
Oh well that's just a bad company.
I mean, yes. But. Now they're worse.
ยซThe complaint says DoorDash drivers began waiting to batch multiple orders together after gaining virtual visibility into kitchen systemsยป
This sounds like an intentional plan to extract money from restaurants and pump it into the gatekeepers' bank accounts (a joint DoorDash/Pizza Hut goal I presume).
The main contribution of "AI" is presumably the hope that it provides plausible deniability for said high street robbery.

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There are mentions of it several times, though.
The failure here is a particular one, not the usual hallucinations - The company wanted to make something, anything at all, with "AI".
So they replaced a functioning system that had purpose-guided information flows with "something, anything with 'AI'".
And because it was "with 'AI'" no thought was given to the purposes involved, old knowledge was disregarded, and I am willing to bet, SMEs were told to "work with it, not against it" or "fail fast so we can improve it", without actually checking if this "something, anything" was a good idea.
Wow that's a lot of "but actually it's not AI's fault!" responses. 
So let me explain:
1. gig workers do not get paid nearly enough
2. Pizza Hut decides to deploy some AI boondoggle ("Dragontail") without thinking it through, believing the BS about "optimizing delivery with AI"
3. gig workers find a way to play the system
4. ???
5. Lawsuit
Gig workers should have been paid more in the first place, but this is still an example of how jumping on the AI hype train can screw you.
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Stranger sliding in... I'm annoyed that I can't blame AI as much as I would like to, here. It does seem like it falls more under "the gig worker economy is absolute bullshit" instead of "AI fucked it up". Gig workers definitely don't get paid enough and I don't blame them for figuring out ways to game the system to optimize. They don't have to care how much the customer likes the actual food.
I am amused that whoever designed the system (presumably human?) did not think about the seems-obvious ways it would get exploited, though. Perhaps they thought the AI would take care of that part. Vibe architecting ftw.
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I have the same issue with deductive logic applied to the real world.
'Everybody is just "doing it wrong", it's really a good tool, otherwise.'
Somehow the total preponderance of "human error" in that domain is not a fundamental fault in the tool, can't be, it's infallible, you know!!
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Exactly.
If the tool doesn't work in your domain, do NOT use the tool in that domain.
Should be simple.
And yes, the irony of it all is that as bad as deduction is in the domain of reality, it's relatively good in computing.
And the fuckers go and invent a stochastic tool so they can suck just as badly in computing as deduction sucks in the real world.
Amazing. Weยดre the problem. Humanity is a fuck.
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Ultimately the issue here was that "we need something with AI" was the motivation for changing the SW.
Previous SW performed better, because it just did the one thing it was supposed to.
And then the New software tried to be optimizable, with the result that it let couriers do hostile optimization.

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@tymwol
When possible, use archive.org
archive.today also owns the urls:
archive.fo
archive.is
archive.li
archive.md
archive.ph
archive.vn
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20โฆ
Archive.today has begun rolling out Google's reCaptcha as well, which is concerning when it can be altered.
I do not have evidence, but I can see how this could possibly be a malware vector in the future.
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
It's a systems design issue, which can appear in any poorly designed system.
It's not AI specific. It just happened they used AI this time.
It's topical to blame ai at the moment. Which is fine.
@notyourfanboy as I said here:
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Can't wait for all the "no but it's not the AI, they implemented it wrong" replies.Somehow whenever slop generators are involved, however incidentally, in something that can be claimed to work, it's "AI DID A THING".
But when they end up causing problems it's "human error" or "implemented it poorly" or some other form of good old "you're holding it wrong".
Not exactly right: โInstead of immediately leaving with a completed order, the suit claims drivers waited โup to fifteen (15) minutesโ for additional deliveries, increasing the time between when a pizza is removed from the oven rack and when it leaves the building to be delivered. The lawsuit also alleges Dashers could see tip amounts and whether orders were cash payments, making some drivers less likely to accept certain deliveries.โ
The AI software did exactly what it was supposed to do. The delivery drivers were never meant to have that much access.
@mighty_orbot pretty exactly right actually โ AI software was integrated poorly and without properly assessing the consequences, leading to a bad outcome.
I am going to *bet* there was someone there saying "but this will cause this exact problem" and was silenced "because AI".
The way this fuckup happened, reminds of a funny but true story.
When I was student (half a century ago), I participated in a programming competition. (PCs didn't exist back then; we wrote programs in FORTRAN for a mainframe.) The task was to write an algorithm for a machine that returns change. The input data was how many coins and banknotes of each denomination the machine had, and a list of values it had to return. The algorithm had to be clever enough so that if it couldn't use the minimal amount of coins and banknotes, it had to switch to other amounts, using the available quantities. The condition said "process as many transactions as possible", obviously meaning the above level of cleverness.
Well, one chap took the condition way too literally. His program buffered all the change requests until there were no more and *then* re-ordered them, in order to fulfill as many as possible with the available money/denominations.
While it clearly "optimized" things, in real life it would have lead to idiotic delays, just like this case with drivers waiting for all the pizzas to be ready.
Pizza Hut was supposed to be the sole survivor of the franchise wars, not the looser! You canโt even trust the historical documents any more.
(Okay, this is Demolition Man and Galaxy Quest)
I am reminded again that AI is a lot like nepotism. The executives want AI, but it isn't competent enough to do a good job. But, with their support, problems are blamed on everyone else, and successes are claimed to be because of AI. The AI takes no blame or responsibility, but it gets all the credit.
Having no practical experience or moral core, an AI can make really stupid mistakes and not have any idea about why they are so stupid. I guess there was no oversight for this very important corporate undertaking.
I wonder whose job it was to make sure the project would work out well?
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Count Dracula was 412 when he moved to England in search of new blood.
Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged The One Ring.
Cthulhu had seen galaxies flare
into life and fade to darkness before he put madness in the minds of men.
It's never too late to follow your dreams!
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been doing solo TTRPG sessions since 0830 UTC (0330 here) because i woke up waaaaaay too early thanks to a page out. it's pretty keen, sometimes, to do it, especially in circumstances when nobody is available for a session.
right now, the character is trying to hunt down the big bad mob boss. no combat. just letting the imagination run wild like in my childhood when i'd daydream.
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Bytebro ๐ฌ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฑ
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Completely agree. It's not 'perfect', but very few things are. And 'perfect' can be the enemy of 'good', if one isn't careful.
I *like* it here, and I hope it gets better. We certainly don't have to ditch what we have already.
The VHS Wizard ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ง
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I feel like the Fediverse is where a lot of the late 2000s/early 2010s forum culture wound up, or are rediscovering as they flee from the walled gardens of big social..
This and, ya know, Tumblr, which is sort of it's own thing. In the words of Tommy Shriggly, they found $100,000, invested it, and turned it into 16 THOUSAND dollars.
(youtube.com/watch?v=RYiI-RSmkCโฆ if you've never been exposed to VIP on Dropout)
Dropout Tommy Shriggly Invests 10000 Dollars
Kermit Meme Templates (YouTube)Truth Or Consequences โ ๐บ๐ฆ
in reply to The VHS Wizard ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ง • • •On Mastodon YOU control your personal algorithm. It's a far more informative and relaxed community.
Sassinake! แ โช โฉ โ
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Wherever we move to, predators will follow.
They need us, to prey upon and feed them
Sophia ๐ถโ๏ธ๐ฉตโจ
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in reply to Sophia ๐ถโ๏ธ๐ฉตโจ • • •Truth Or Consequences โ ๐บ๐ฆ
in reply to Sassinake! แ โช โฉ โ • • •Sassinake! แ โช โฉ โ
in reply to Truth Or Consequences โ ๐บ๐ฆ • • •Light
in reply to Sassinake! แ โช โฉ โ • • •@veronica
S.R. Weaver
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •And no assymetric privacy trades like needing a government ID just to protect yourself from deep fakery.
I think I may slowly remove the few videos I have on YT.
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Thank you, Veronica for your kind words and hope
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in reply to ๐ฏ CarlOS • • •Favourite: "thank you for posting this"
Boost: "I need to help make sure all my friends see this as well."
Favorites are still useful, even on fedi.
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in reply to Veronica Explains • • •The Internet of our childhood wasn't without its flaws, either. Flame wars aplenty.
Didn't stop us from loving it, though.
Light
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