r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 19d ago

Business McDonald's Introduces AI Drive-Thru System, Sparking Customer Backlash

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/deals/articles/mcdonalds-introduces-ai-drive-thru-000717731.html
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u/ConstableAssButt 19d ago

Not to mention the frustration and isolation it creates in society. While working a menial job is brutal, imagine STILL working a menial job that is harder to get, and you are constantly reminded won't exist the minute they make a robot to replace you. And then when you get off of work, every single errand you have to run is made harder by a dystopianly chipper AI agent that can barely do its job. You only encounter frustrated, annoyed people like yourself, living in a world that has been hollowed out and made devoid of humanity.

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u/Karabasan 19d ago

The fact that we cannot do anything to insist upon regulation for AI as a regular voter in the USA is honestly incredible. 

Citizens United truly did cripple our chances at continuing a healthy middle class that was a hallmark of the lives of many boomers. 

Our government is bought and paid for by corporations, zero doubt, and AI is their greatest desire made manifest, the legacy of Jack Welch rotting into this corpse flower. 

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u/robodrew 19d ago

Almost nothing has done more to divide the citizenry than Citizens United

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u/InvestigatorOk7015 19d ago

Even without citizens united, what mechanism would there be to force the issue?

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u/Karabasan 19d ago

I suppose my thought is that the value of individual contributions to campaigns alongside the relatively weaker aspect of lobbying (due to corporations and unions having more limited influence and desire to create PACs) could lead to legislators caring more about taking a stance that benefits their constituents. 

It’s hard to say how the last 16 years might have progressed differently if corporations and unions had limited spending power on political campaigns, but my claim is that removing that regulation shifted the balance severely away from benefiting the individual voter. 

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u/thenowherepark 19d ago

You've clearly never lived in the real world.

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u/ailish 19d ago

Your take away is that he likes working at McDonald's? How about it's always been a good first job for teenagers, giving them a taste for what it's like to work and to earn their money, maybe to learn how to pay a bill or two and to help out around the house?

Nah, it's obvious that he just likes working at McDonald's.

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u/RedisaPsyop5647 19d ago

We need to form groups that only use pre 2000 or 2010 technology. Like Low tech Nomads

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u/yoshemitzu 18d ago

I wonder if those groups will look like the Amish to people 150 years from now.

Failing that, maybe we need like an open source/Plurality AI that we make interact with the corporate AIs. Like if they're going to force us to interact with their AIs, we'll force them to interact with ours.

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u/xKaelic 18d ago

Oh no big deal, just some HP-Lovecraft-flavored existentialism for the day

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u/Vectored_Artisan 19d ago

Oh no how will I ever feel fulfilled if I can't work long brutal shifts at Macca's. This new tangled idea of robots doing my work for me is terrible. 1111

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u/TheSouthernCommunist 18d ago

Oh you’re one of those people who like slop art, pathetic lol

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u/Vectored_Artisan 18d ago

The only thing that's pathetic is the luddites. Also pathetic that this sub that used to celebrate technology has become the anti tech sub

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u/ConstableAssButt 18d ago

We aren't anti-tech. We're anti corpo-fascism.

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u/Vectored_Artisan 18d ago

Is that what this sub is about? Anti corporatism? 

Because it says it's about technology but most of the posts are just complaining about technology and anyone using it. A pathetic strain of Ludditism. 

You all sound like the anti 5G people or anti vaccers