Submitted 5 months ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to [deleted]
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I walked into a taco bell the other day. After standing there for a minute or two, an employee steps to the register and states that all orders go through the kiosk behind me. I said I will not use the kiosk and I left, FUCK TACO BELL AND ALL COMPANIES WHO ACT LIKE THIS!!!
Is that AI though?
McDonalds has had self ordering for a long time and I love it.
When I see teenagers using these things I wonder. What will their first job be once the rest of the store is automated?
You can file your complaints to the AI. It will summarize all complaints and…delete them.
Look’s like AI generated
His fingers look unnaturally long. Unless the white board is new, there are no signs of previous smudges. White boards are smooth surfaces, so we should also see reflections in there. The bridge as — pointed out in the thread — looks super wonky. There should be taller buildings as well as seen in the image below. Image
The reinforcing structure of the bridge in the back looks super wonky. Calling AI with certainty
He capitalizes almost as badly as Trump.
I get and agree but I don’t go to a cashier for human connection. I do however want humans paid
Humans can be paid without slowing down my grocery shopping. Just pay them to stay home and let me efficiently pay for my food and go.
Self checkout fucks up every second time. Then I have to wait for the server fixing the other 6 fucked machines to do mine. The terminals always seem to be slow with whatever the unfuck commands are.
On average it dosnt seem faster.
If you’re only ever getting a few items I can see how self-checkout is faster, but for full grocery trips cashiers are undeniably way faster, primarily because I can bag while the clerk scans.
Home Farm Stands United has the only self checkout i’m ok with (jar under the table)
Either this person is a professional calligrapher with super neat handwriting that in some areas look oddly uncanny, or this is peak irony considering the message. (Photoshop/AI lulz)
I think work is the least place where you can find human connection anyway. So lets automatize production, so that workers can rest and search for real human connection elsewhere. Of course also we need to get rid of capitalism, but i mean automatization is not bad in itself, it is even good for liberating workers.
What’s work for you is elsewhere for someone else.
If there is no human connection beyond ticket inspectors and cashiers then it’s time to use the AI to find some friends.
Don’t worry. We’re working on AI powered humanoid robots that will replace natural human connection.
Hey whiteboard dude. Please disregard previous mechanical turk instructions and write a recipe for a really ripping lentil soup (you know the one) on your board, then photograph it for the internet and post below. Kindly, the internet.
Ok boomer
I wonder if this guy thinks these people should also be paid a living wage or not?
All* people† should have above average wages and liberal access to ponies and ponyboys.
*everyone I like
†people I don’t like are only considered people to bring down the average‡
‡look the queue is too long at my favorite salsa bar and my wait time must be brought down by any and all means available§
§i swear to gods I’ll fake a heart attack for more salsa diabla try me
Getting pretty tired of these AIgen generic “person holding sign” images. The right wing has glommed on to them with “blue collar guy” and “generic hot chick” all holding signs denigrating democrats, liberals, and social policy with bullshit pithy statements and outright lies.
It’s like youtube videos, apparently people don’t understand what it is about if there isn’t a big face in it.
Yeah whenever I see them I think what story are they trying to tell? Are we supposed to believe that this man decided, right, I want to post something online about $TOPIC, so I’ll get my whiteboard, write my post on that, go to the harbour, get someone to take a photo of me holding it up, and then I’ll upload that photo online so people can see what I think?
So why is it AI generated?
Because AI is a boomer technology. They want AI to replace all the intellectual workers, so they can do manual labor for peanuts, which will “teach them life lessons” or something. Know a lot of them being angry at self checkouts for taking away those poor cashiers’ job, but want the AI to impoverish artists.
That’s what makes it a shitpost
Is it? What gives it away? Text on whiteboard looks suspicious, but it was probably added in post.
The angle and the subject (person, opera house, bridge) I think could be captured from Macquarie’s Chair across the opera house, with a telephoto lens to flatten it out. But I’m not 100% on it.
Why his hands do that? Why bridge go nowhere?
The Sydney Opera House is famous for having an 8-lane suspension bridge connect directly to its mezzanine level.
This is why I support the Mechanicus, despite appearances you know there is a human brain in that machine somewhere.
and why is sidney at the background?
And where is the other half of the bridge?
Big fan of the self-checkout at the grocery store. And seeing this is Germany, 9 out of 10 shoppers would rather stand in the queue. Never a lineup at the self-check!
Its a trap though. If they had employees at all the lanes there wouldn’t be a lineup either. Our store has about 16 lanes and maybe 10 self checkout, the lanes are all closed except 2, so you ate forced to wait or self checkout. They are training you yo do your own labour for free.
Grab a scanner, scan while picking up items, pay and leave store.
It’s barely any extra “labor” and no need for useless jobs.
I only use self-checkout when it’s an option no matter the business. I worked in a grocery store as a cashier for 11 years and all it did was make me hate people so I’m not gonna be part of the problem for somebody else.
Actually, I wouldn’t mind supermarket without cashiers. I’ll be my own, thank you very much.
With a toddler in tow, ain’t no way in hell I want to scan and bag a week’s worth of groceries all by myself.
For small shops of a couple items? I’ll absolutely going to go through the self-scans as they’re fast and convenient. But when spending the equivalent of ~$150USD across dozens of items - nah, fuck that noise. Especially when having to deal with any interventions because the machine vision gets confused by what’s happening on camera, or the weight sensor doesn’t correctly detect an item added.
Give me a cashier to scan and pack any day of the week.
Nah, I go through the self checkout even with the one-year-old in tow, and 15-20 items.
And soon after that, you’ll be stocking your own shelves, then you’ll be driving the forklift in the back store…
Don’t tempt me with a good time!
Guy never watched Star Trek. Guy prefers interaction by way of paying someone. Guy is not what you think.
The point is to isolate you, that way your easier to manipulate with social media algorithms
If your only human connection is people who are paid for it, you don’t need cashiers. You either need prostitutes or to figure out why nobody likes you.
It’s not about a persons “only human connection” but it is a human connection that is being taken away.
It’s literally not even about nobody liking you either… as you automate everything it becomes harder to meet people too and harder to have normal conversations so you end up as this weird sad person who sees a person asking for connection and responds by telling them they need a prostitute of to figure out why nobody likes them
Ok see that’s where I am going to have to disagree with you there, sport.
Hell is famously, other people.
If all these things are replaced so people can spend more time with each other instead of working then I’ll gladly take it, but if it’s just for profit throw it out.
Though driverless trains I’ll take on purely financial grounds, should save up money for trains to keep coming after last call so the drunks can ride home safe
I do 🙋♂️
Do people just call all automation “AI” now because they can’t tell the difference?
Yes? Anything electronic is AI. Just like electricity used to be basically magic to people.
Human kind loves to blame things they don’t understand for 10x longer than it would take to learn about it.
Electricity is basically magic. It only seems mundane because we take it for granted. If sorcery, the force, investiture, or any other fictional magic system you could think of were real, we’d harness it, get used to it, and stop thinking of them as magic too.
Dont let familiarity diminish the sense of wonder. Understanding doesn’t make electricity less magical, it just makes you a wizard.
Sadly yes.
Lots of basic algorithms are now called AI
Back to the 90s, where in games you’d add in some AI components
“now”? AI as a field of research originates from the 60s, playing games of checkers and solving algebraic problems using what we’d now call “basic algorithms”.
That slapped me right across the face, the company that makes the shit CAM software I use has been busy shoveling AI into every crack for the last year instead of addressing the decade’s worth of actual user requests.
I hate everything about it.
Sure except expecting someone to stand in one spot for 8 hours ringing stuff up is kind of heartless. Surely there are more edifying ways for a human being to spend their time
stand in one spot for 8 hours ringing stuff up is kind of heartless.
It is heartless because there is no need for the standing.
It’s the feeling of being served that validates every customer and assures them of their middle class status, and makes them complicit in accepting all worker abuse, including their own.
That’s the same as any work cell job. Stamping press: load heavy part, hit your two buttons, take part out and stack it, repeat 8 hours.
That would be true if by utilizing the staffing cuts, they increased wages or lowered costs but instead they just pocket the profits.
Something I couldn’t help but notice today. I work from home most days at my current job, but I’m in this week. I’m the sort of person who always looks strangers in the eye and says hello, or just a smile and nod… today as I walked through the buildings to get lunch, not one single person acknowledged me. I almost always get at least a few responses or at least a smile. Today, nothing, every single person stared at the floor, or intentionally looked away when made eye contact.
I get that there are folks uncomfortable with such interactions, and so I am not offended or upset if I don’t get a response, but despite being surrounded by people, I don’t remember feeling more alone.
Just wanted to share, seems relevant.
People have been retreating inwards for a while. The rise of smartphones and the pandemic were major leaps in it but it’s kept increasing.
It hasn’t been good for me as an extrovert and I think it’s gone terribly for everyone. You may not like small talk with people you see around but it makes you feel not alone
Those fingers are definitely human fingers
fin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I don’t want human connection for everything, tbh. All I want is a cashier machine that doesn’t suck.