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Costco article has nothing to do with PB but I'm betting the AI is showing me a picture of allergic butter. Frankly dangerous.

Also unhelpful, since, if you look at my comment history, I was already aware of the Costco butter fiasco and had made a snarky comment about it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Alright, this is a good way to show why AI is so dangerous! I usually look at thumbnails before reading article titles, so when I read the title, my brain auto replaced butter with peanut butter.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago

That's almost as good as this one I got months back

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Also unhelpful, since, if you look at my comment history, I was already aware of the Costco butter fiasco and had made a snarky comment about it.

Are you insinuating Google is reading your Lemmy comments and pushing you news recommendations based on those?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Considering they are not even capable of removing video recommendations for videos you literally just finished watching on Youtube I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

i get that this is supposed to be a joke but just because they can't get a bug fixed doesn't mean they aren't teacking you and recommending you stuff based on your web activity

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

Honestly, recommendation engines are literally the most primitive shit, especially the ones by large companies.

Audible keeps recommending part 3 or 4 of series where i haven't heard part 1 or 2 or tells me there is a new title in my "favorite series", i.e.g the one where I just stopped listing half-way through a book to instead listen to something else.

Amazon also still hasn't fixed that simple thing where it keeps recommending you a second e.g. washing machine because you recently bought one.

Google recommendations were literally better 10 years ago than they are now though I suppose AI is partially to blame for that one but even before that it "helpfully corrected" searches frequently away from what I was actually looking for just because the term was similar to a more popular one.

I don't doubt that they feed it all kinds of tracking data but the actual algorithm that does anything with that data is literally about as primitive as the "chosen by fair dice roll" XKCD.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Which is probably what they spend the most time and energy perfecting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

If they have an android based phone, they probably are..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I also got that article recommendation and had a good laugh.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"Allergy butter" is my new name for Jif. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

it’s pronounced “jif”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Thanks Satan

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago

This is when you turn off notifications from that app. Use the app whenever you want, not someone else or a machine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

AI creates fiction that sometimes intersects with reality, in the same way that Legends & Lattes has a few real-world things like coffee shops and lattes, but the things like orcs, ratkin, succubi, and magic that comprise the rest of the details are still currently fiction.

People just need to learn to assume LLMs are always writing fiction with a handful of details borrowed from real life.