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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/how…
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/how…How 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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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 — and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.
Pizza Hut franchisee says delivery drivers gamed its new AI 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.
“You’re just not vibing hard enough!”
«The complaint says DoorDash drivers began waiting to batch multiple orders together after gaining virtual visibility into kitchen systems»
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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@nemobis I read that as the drivers acting rationally - they get paid by the delivery, so why not get paid for 3-4 at once? (And they don't get paid by PH, and clearly DoorDash isn't getting flak for delivering cold/late.)
It's def. bad for the franchisee - but that may be them learning that a franchisee only makes as much money as the franchise permits.
@anyGould and maybe – crazy, I know, but hear me out! – we can all draw a lesson from this about poorly integrating overhyped "solutions"? 
I hate so-called AI, but in this case it seems to me it was more a "problem" of "giving a little more knowledge and power to delivery drivers"?
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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.
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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!!
@androcat Here you have a tool that's non deterministic in nature, trained on human behavior and which impact have not been fully tested. What were we expecting exactly? But yes, it's absolutely the tool's fault.
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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. We´re the problem. Humanity is a fuck.
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@androcat But in that case the tool did exactly what was asked. Just because an application was produced with the help of an AI doesn't mean you can blindly trust it and release it without any sort of testing. You don't do that with human developer, why should it be any different with AI.
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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.
@androcat I don't disagree but maybe, just maybe, we should stop blaming the tools for our own shortcomings? Just saying.
@jeantranscene @androcat I agree with you! But the industry decided that somehow if a large complex system has even a tiny bit of machine learning, everything good it does is somehow "AI did it", so I see no reason not to use the exact same reasoning when it screws up.
@androcat The industry suffers from an acute AI fever, and I'm afraid it's not curable and very contagious. We may have to put down the patients. 😉.
I love how, on top of a forced AI system, just plain old greed and capitalist optimization attempts backfired. Seems the business of business should sometimes be just delivering pizza. Not batch processing stale, cold messes.
@trebach @grob and before that it was a place to take the family to sit down and share a pizza together, pick out some music on the jukebox and play video games while waiting for the pizza to arrive as the parents got to have a 1:1 conversation with the kids entertained. But technology took care of all that!
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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.
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
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@LoganFive Sounds like it’s more like $100m in lost revenue that was stolen from gig workers to begin with.
@FeloniousPunk @LoganFive no doubt. The root cause is capitalism.
If you read the article it's claiming that exposing details to the door dashers was the major issue.
@notyourfanboy and that exposure was caused by integrating an AI boondoggle (Dragontail) poorly and without understanding the full extent of consequences.
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".
@mighty_orbot pretty exactly right actually – 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 can’t even trust the historical documents any more.
(Okay, this is Demolition Man and Galaxy Quest)
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I *like* it here, and I hope it gets better. We certainly don't have to ditch what we have already.
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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.
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Favorites are still useful, even on fedi.
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Didn't stop us from loving it, though.
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