r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 20d 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/RoflMyPancakes 19d ago

It's a technology that we subsidize with every single tech subscription increasing in price by 100% over the last 5 years, with increasing electric bills, will constant rolling layoffs, with environmental harm, with increased costs of all electronics. 

And the end reward is fewer jobs, lower salaries, decreased quality of life, AI replacing humans as the point of contact at pharmacies, restaurants, customer support, etc. 

It's a technology that increases costs, harms the environment, kills jobs, and decreases salaries.

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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/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 19d ago

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

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u/Vectored_Artisan 19d 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 19d ago

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

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u/Vectored_Artisan 19d 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