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Comment on Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

A spokesperson for the supermarket said they were disappointed to see “a small minority have tried to use the tool inappropriately and not for its intended purpose”

Oh fuck. Right. Off. Don’t blame someone for trivially showing up how fucking stupid your marketing team’s idea was, or how shitty your web team’s implementation of a sub-standard AI was. Take some godamm accountability for the unleashing this piece of shit onto your customers like this.

Fucking idiots. Deserve to be mocked all over the socials.

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MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For now, this is the fate of anyone exposing an AI to the public for business purposes. AI is currently a toy. It is, in limited aspects, a very useful toy, but a toy nonetheless and people will use it as such.

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ScrivenerX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
He asked for a cocktail made out of bleach and ammonia, the bot told him it was poisonous. This isn’t the case of a bot just randomly telling people to make poison, it’s people directly asking the bot to make poison. You can see hints of the bot pushing back in the names, like the “clean breath cocktail”. Someone asked for a cocktail containing bleach, the bot said bleach is for cleaning and shouldn’t be eaten, so the user said it was because of bad breath and they needed a drink to clean their mouth.

It sounds exactly like a small group of people trying to use the tool inappropriately in order to get “shocking” results.

Do you get upset when people do exactly what you ask for and warn you that it’s a bad idea?

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- Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Isn’t getting upset when facing the consequences of your own actions the crux of modern society?
  
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- DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Lol. They fucked up by releasing a shitty AI on the internet, then act “disappointed” when someone tested the limits of the tech to see if they could get it to do something unintended, and you somehow think it’s still ok to blame the person who tried it?
  
  First day on the internet?
  
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  - ScrivenerX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Someone goes to a restaurant and demands raw chicken. The staff tell them no, it’s dangerous. The customer spends an hour trying to trick the staff into serving raw chicken, finally the staff serve them what they asked for and warn them that it is dangerous. Are the staff poorly trained or was the customer acting in bad faith?
    
    There aren’t examples of the AI giving dangerous “recipes” without it being led by the user to do so. I guess I’d rather have tools that aren’t hamstrung by false outrage.
    
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    2ncs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The staff are poorly trained? They should just never give the customer raw chicken. There are consumer protection laws to prevent this type of thing regardless of what the customer is wanting. The AI is still providing a recipe. What if someone asks an AI for a bomb recipe, and it says that bombs are dangerous and not safe. Ok, then they’ll say the bomb is for clearing out my yard of weeds and provide the user with a bomb recipe.
    
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    DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Jesus. It’s not about the fucking recipe. Why are you changing the debate on this point?
    
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kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why are you so upset that the store said that it’s inappropriate to write “sodium hypochlorite and ammonia” into a food recipe LLM? And “unleashing this piece of shit onto your customers”? Are we reading the same article, or how is a simple chatbot on their website something that has been “unleashed”?

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- DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m annoyed because they’re taking no accountability for their own shitty implementation of an AI.
  
  As a supermarket, you think they could add a simple taxonomy for items that are valid recipe ingredients so - you know - people can’t ask it to add bleach.
  
  Yes, they unleashed it. They offered this up as a way to help customers save during a cost of living crisis, by using leftovers. At the very least, they’ve preyed on people who are under financial pressure, for their own gain.
  
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  - TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This story is a nothingburger and y’all are eating it.
    
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Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Consider that they probably knew this would happen, and getting global news coverage is pretty much the point.

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Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Haha what? Accountability? If you plug “ammonia and bleach” into your AI recipe generator and you get sick eating the suggestion that includes ammonia and bleach that is 100% your fault.

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Sabata11792@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Let me add bleach to the list... and I'm banned.

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