Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items

  • Ransom@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    A spokesperson for the supermarket said they were disappointed to see “a small minority have tried to use the tool inappropriately and not for its intended purpose”

    Disappointed. Bloody hell. A company that’s too cheap to curate some actual recipes is “disappointed” because the tech they built is creating lethal recipes. I wonder what their liability is if someone tried and got hurt/sick.

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      Such poor coding, how hard could it be to not let people use products that aren’t food? This along with their comment just makes them seem so lazy.

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      Let’s turn the outrage dial back a bit. People had the bot make recipies with non-grocery items for laughs ( ie bleach and ammonia) and unsurprisingly the bot combined them.

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        Corporations acting all parentally “disappointed” because they were too cheap to properly code it isn’t okay.

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        if (itemCategory != ‘grocery’) { warn(“don’t eat this”)}

        They couldn’t be bothered to put in the most basic of filters for an input like this. The company doesn’t get a pass for this level of incompetence