Gerowen

Edited my original comment for accuracy.

If I go to a buffet style restaurant like Golden Corral where there’s a long table full of precooked items, I’m gonna go up to that table and rummage around and fill my own plate, 😜

Thanks for clarifying. I hadn’t actually used that particular feature so I must have misunderstood the way it was worded in the app.

For most of my shopping, which takes place at our local Walmart (I live in the US), I actually really like using the self-checkout. Now when we make a big grocery run, having a person there makes things easier because they can scan and bag, I can unload things onto the belt and my wife can pull bags off the little turnstile thing and put them back in our cart, but most of the time I’m just running in to grab a handful of items so when I leave I can just walk up to the kiosk, scan my stuff, scan the QR code with the Walmart app on my phone and walk out the door. It’ll auto pay with the privacy card I attached to my Walmart account and give me a digital receipt to show if somebody wants to see it at the door. They even have a thing now where you can pay a monthly subscription for “Walmart+” where you can scan and pay for your items as you shop.

Governments should not depend on social media for vital communications, period.

Google may not be showing an “AI” tagged answer, but they’re using AI to automatically generate web pages with information collated from outside sources to keep you on Google instead of citing and directing you to the actual sources of the information they’re using.

Here’s an example. I’m on a laptop with a 1080p screen. I went to Google (which I basically never use, so it shouldn’t be biased for or against me) and did a search for “best game of 2023”. I got no actual results in the entire first screen. Instead, their AI or other machine learning algorithms collated information from other people and built a little chart for me right there on the search page and stuck some YouTube (also Google) links below that, so if you want to read an article you have to scroll down past all the Google generated fluff.

I performed the exact same search with DuckDuckGo, and here’s what I got.

And that’s not to mention all the “news” sites that have straight up fired their human writers and replaced them with AI whose sole job is to just generate word salads on the fly to keep people engaged and scrolling past ads, accuracy be damned.

While the individuals have a responsibility to double check things, I think Google is a big part of this. They’re rolling “AI” into their search engine, so people are being fed made up, inaccurate bullshit by a search engine that they’ve trusted for decades.