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Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tonytins@pawb.social⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://futurism.com/ai-menu-description-gross

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  • Dirk@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    tldr:

    “Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus,” the dish description from Sikar’s Royal Roll Express restaurant reads. “Common in childhood.”

    A misreading of the dish name in question — “Chicken Pops” — could well explain why an AI may have spat out a description for what sounds an awful lot like chicken pox, a common childhood virus that causes the exact kind of nasty “blister-like bumps” detailed on the menu.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dunno, in my childhood machine-translated things possessed some charm. Or when translations were by clueless people. Druids in Star Wars instead of droids, for example.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • you_are_dust@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do companies no longer have Quality Assurance at all now? You don’t even need like a whole department, just make it part of someone’s job. This is crazy that there’s no proofreading.

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    • DrWorm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I know of 4 companies in the last 2 months that laid off their entire QA departments. With the expectation that product and engineers will pick up the QA work with the reasoning that you can use AI to be more productive and help with quality assurance tasks. Historically, in my experience, QA departments are the only ones that actually have any documentation and knowledge of how the product works… Better than the product department.

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    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Replaced with Ai

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      • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Quality Assurance would happen after the AI.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What the fuck is this title? Please tell me a real summary.

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Website Uses AI for Headline, Accidentally Writes Headline in Way So Stupid That We May Never Recover

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Seems more like someone got confused and dumped info for chicken pox instead of “chicken pops”

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Dish is called Chicken Pops, AI describes chicken pox.

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  • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Another way for corporations to lie to consumers and fake the quality of their products.

    They are so desperate to make the little line go up sharper. SMH

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Here’s what we do. We all stop buying.

      Stop buying what?

      Yes.

      Stop.

      Line goes down until they stop.

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      • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They’re bundling AI into everything everything from operating systems to office software. No one is buying anything when they’re forcing it down our throats in things we already own.

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If boycotts actually worked, we wouldn’t need regulation. But they clearly fucking don’t.

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  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do we need to start review bombing sites that are doing this similar to how review bombs happen on Steam?

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People who naievely pipe AI output directly to end users are ignoring the fundamental principle that writers need editors. AI isn’t at fault any more than a junior copywriter would be at fault for screwing up. In both cases their job is to produce rough copy which an editor is supposed to make a pass over. The problem lies with the management decision to remove the human editor from the process. Managers have always looked for magic bullets to fix problems they aren’t good enough managers to handle. They’ll bring in consultants who give a seminar and leave a set of binders behind, and say do everything this way now, believing the sales pitch that said it would revolutionize the whole department. These same talentless managers are embracing AI with the same false hopes and implementing it just as clumsily.

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  • RedStrider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    old.reddit.com/…/restaurants_shouldnt_use_ai_for_… to save you 2 clicks

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    • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why save 2 clicks when you could save 3?

      The menu item in question reads as follows:

      Chicken Pops

      Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood.

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Image

        ^ what this is about

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        ^ too Reddit comment link

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hey, if eating “Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus” is wrong then I absolutely fucking LOVE being right.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We being the restaurant? I’m not clicking such a broken title.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We being the readers.

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  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m just dumbfounded they’d ask AI to write the menu without having tasted any of the food.

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    • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They’re lazy and cheap, and now they’re gonna pay for it.

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  • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah ha ha, hahaha, ha ha, ha ha ha, ha!

    Someone didn’t proofread.

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