Has anyone thought that maybe training an AI on a group of people that spend the majority of their lives communicating online might not be the best group to emulate in the real world?
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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the issue was losing cintext and forgetting about previous supply orders. wasnt about training
Sure, lots of people. Just not the group of people spending the majority of their lives communicating online.
I think we are those people.
Oh no
Notice we are saying "Don't do this".
I think the group of people spending the majority of their lives communicating online would be the first to insist that people who spend their lives online shouldn’t be put in charge of anything in the real world.
God, I'm so sick of AI that I feel like a luddite. I used to be a tech nerd, and enjoy the cutting edge of developing technologies. Now I just wish we could go back in time. I think the problem isn't so much the developing technology, but rather the way it is being crammed down our throats whether we want it or not. Everywhere I look I'm inundated with AI slop. Youtube has gotten ridiculous. I used to be able to find interesting content fairly easily. Now, every search is full of an endless array of AI slop from brand new accounts with only a few hundred followers. Anything good has been buried by 10,000 AI-generated ripoffs. Maybe someday AI will come into it's own, but it is nowhere near there now, and I am so, so tired of having to deal with it. It's like the entire world is being turned into one of those automated customer service telephone lines that are completely useless; that you're stuck navigating until you're put on hold for 30 minutes when you ask to speak to a human.
I’m so sick of AI that I feel like a luddite
The luddites weren't against technology, the were against the exploitation of the workers enabled by technology
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Get kagi. I don't use the internet without it
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Get the huge u block ai blocklist.
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Get newpipe and only flow youtubers you trust
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Collect consoles and PCs from pre 2008 and put them in a room you can lock yourself in to be free from shitty modern tech
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Delete social media
The problem is, AI is being used as a replacement for informed decisions/information, but it was never properly trained on how to be factual or make responsible adult decisions. AI is literally a global spam bot/virus that has infected Earth worse than Covid ever could. And the people pushing it on us are worse than anti-vax/anti-maskers.
LLMs like Gemini have basically the exact same UI form factor as the Starship Enterprise's computer. All you need is that little tweedle "I'm listening" prompt and a Text-To-Majel-Barrett library. Thing is, on the Enterprise, it always correctly worked. If you asked it for a statement of fact you'd get a quote out of a database. Gemini will just make shit up that sounds plausible.
Exactly. I am a time thief at work with limited internet access at my job, but I have access to Gemini and I use it because I have nothing else to do. I often need to overcorrect it ALL the time.
When old memory of ordering stuff is out of the context window, she completely forgets what she has ordered in the past
Look I agree that AI is probably a terrible business manager… but this is irresponsible design on the researcher’s part. AI breaks past the context window with tool calling. If it doesn’t have a list inventory tool, it will obviously fail to do this correctly.
These techniques are built into virtually every coding harness today, if you’re not using them for a business harness, that’s negligent.
No surprises here. Well, at least the items it ordered this time were kinda-sorta-maybe-almost plausible to stock at a café, unlike the tungsten cubes in the vending machine.
No wait, where are the tungsten cube vending machines?
Counterpoint: put AI in charge of big corpos immediately, drive them bankrupt. As a bonus you don’t have to pay CEO salary to do it! Win/win!
As a bonus you don’t have to pay CEO salary to do it!
That alone would be a huge bump in profitability. Hell, just make it employee-owned so the workers see the benefits
It's not clear if the cafe is just that poorly run, or if people know ai is running it, so they stay away from even trying it. Both would cut into the profits.
Did you not read the article? It's pretty clear that the AI is poorly running the cafe.
You might think that ordering cases of canned tomatoes, or a 10-year supply of rubber gloves are poor management decisions, but that's because this AI is playing seven dimensional chess against your tic-tac-toe. Just wait until it's cornered the tomato market, and then you'll see.
Especially when the training data contains some gems such as this: https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kzoh1c/i_am_financially_ruined_agricultural_futures/
Call me when it starts to corner the Toilet Paper Market. Because THAT is when it has become sentient and is planning the next economic apocalypse.
The AI is going to poison the tomato supply with a toxin absorbed through the skin!