Supermarket AI Offers Mom's Famous Mustard Gas Recipe

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s chloramine, not mustard gas. The latter has sulfur in it, which neither bleach nor ammonia contain.

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  • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And it didn't exactly offer it, as in "why don't you try this?" The AI was set up so you could give it some ingredients and it would offer recipes that used those ingredients.

    New Zealand political commentator Liam Hehir wrote on Twitter that he asked the Pak‘nSave bot to create a recipe that only included water, ammonia and bleach

    When you mix ammonia and bleach you get chloramine, the AI was basically told to make a recipe that would produce that.

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    • Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just like most stories these days about AI doing some weird shit, it's almost always because it was explicitly instructed to do weird shit.

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    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True but when most people put a few ingredients into a search engine, they usually get a recipe that uses most (but not necessarily all) of the ingredients. If you used "ammonia bleach recipe" as search terms in a search engine, you would not get any results for drinkable recipes, likely just articles and blog posts with warnings on not to mix them. The people using the AI recipe bot probably started out using it like a search engine but must have noticed that it will use all ingredients no matter how disharmonious, then started to test how bad the bot really was, pushing it to absurd levels.

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  • A_A@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for flagging the mistake.
    Clickbaitty titles often goes this way. Dangerous gases either way.

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    • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep. Chloramine is the eye-stinging stink of dirty swimming pools, too: nitrogenous compounds from human body fluids (sweat, urine, etc.) react with chlorine too.

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• 47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So, we're just adding AI shit everywhere just because now? Is this some kind of "me too" game that corporations are playing? The amount of times in the past 4 years I have needed an AI to help me out with anything at all has been exactly zero, unless you count making stupid images on Bing for shits and giggles.

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  • StarServal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Businesses run on Investor/Shareholder dreams, and they dream about the next newest bullshit to make money. Thats why Crypto and Blockchain got so big a few years ago.

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  • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AIs like these have only been available for less than a year, so I'm not sure why you used a four-year timeframe.

    If these AIs aren't useful to you then don't use them. It's not unreasonable to be exploring these options, though, since these AIs are a new capability. It makes sense to experiment with new capabilities to see whether they can make things easier.

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  • Kuvwert@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Damn kids and their skateboards

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• theodewere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  man, not even Stephen King imagined supermarket robots trying to tell grandma to go home and accidentally off herself with mustard gas

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  • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If grandma asks for a recipe using the ingredients ammonia, bleach and water then maybe if she ends up offing herself it wasn’t an accident.

    Maybe the bot isn’t too useful but acting surprised or horrified because if you give it a list a crazy ingredients you get a recipe using the crazy ingredients you provided is kind of weird. This article is basically clickbait.

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    • theodewere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      are you being dramatic for personal or professional reasons

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  • whataboutshutup@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even that Bachman-guy is still not that vile.

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• MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  aromatic adjective ar·​o·​mat·​ic ˌa-rə-ˈma-tik ˌer-ə- 1 : of, relating to, or having aroma: a : having a noticeable and pleasant smell : FRAGRANT aromatic herbs aromatic wines b : having a strong smell The peat burns with a pungently aromatic smoke. c : having a distinctive quality

  I mean… If we are going with definition 1.b… It’s not wrong. It is an aromatic water mixture. It’s just not an aroma that you want.

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• AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Peggy Hill bout to file the first copyright suit.

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• Introversion@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yumm, just like grandma used to make (before she killed the rest of the family)!

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• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mum used to make this for us when we were too poor for actual mustard.

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