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Cut the 'AI' bullshit (uniavisen.dk)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Illusion — Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis (which it is facilitating), get rid of poverty (on which it is heavily relying), and unleash the full potential of human creativity (which it is undermining)?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I'm not sure how that's a useful thing besides convincing people to spend money on something they done need? Like, you either need a product at the grocery store or you don't. I don't need corpo bullshit ad bots to beg me to buy shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (10 children)

I don't think I explained it well.

I shop at 4, maybe 5, different grocery stores. Some products I have preferences whereas others I don't.

For example, say this is my grocery list for the week:

grapes (never buy at Walmart)
composition notebook
ground turkey (only buy at Wegmans, unless there's a sale)
oat milk
chocolate chips
eggs

I want an AI to scrape every grocery store's weekly ad or their website along with any coupons that are available, and determine the best price and, based on patterns of sales, what I should wait on and what time of day I should shop.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I think you explained it fine, it just doesn’t make sense to people who only go to the same place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't make sense to me and I've got three grocery stores and a walmart within miles of me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you regularly use their ads to compare prices and select what to buy at each one, or generally stick to one place with a few trips to another one?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I shop for convenience and brands I prefer. One store has some items I prefer over the others. That's to say I shop like a normal person.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Normal based on what? The ads exist because plenty of normal people use them to decide where to buy things or certain items. If they didn’t bring people in the stores wouldn’t bother.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Normal as in the existence of a coupon doesn't determine if I fulfill my needs at a store.

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