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McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16955080

LLMs certainly hold potential, but as we’ve seen time and time again in tech over the last fifteen years, the hype and greed of unethical pitchmen has gotten way out ahead of the actual locomotive. A lot of people in “tech” are interested in money, not tech. And they’re increasingly making decisions based on how to drum up investment bucks, get press attention and bump stock, not on actually improving anything.

The result has been a ridiculous parade of rushed “AI” implementations that are focused more on cutting corners, undermining labor, or drumming up sexy headlines than improving lives. The resulting hype cycle isn’t just building unrealistic expectations and tarnishing brands, it’s often distracting many tech companies from foundational reality and more practical, meaningful ideas.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

haven't read the article, but Burger King had bacon on ice cream for a while back in 2012. Didn't work for me, but others liked it.

[–] Somsphet 2 points 5 months ago

Came here to see if I was insane. I never saw the commercial so I always thought the customer was making a stupid joke.

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