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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    511 months 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.

    • jimbolauski
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      411 months ago

      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.

      • @Ransom@lemmy.ca
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        211 months ago

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

      • conciselyverbose
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        211 months ago

        The fact that it’s capable of doing so is obscenely dangerous and should draw serious legal attention.

      • @FoxBJK@midwest.social
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        111 months ago

        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

    • UnhappyCamper
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      311 months ago

      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.

  • conciselyverbose
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    311 months 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”.

    You should be thrilled that people are highlighting the issue before your batshit insane implementation literally kills someone.

    How fucking hard is it to define stuff as “food” or “not food”?