this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2025
470 points (98.8% liked)
Fuck AI
4079 readers
764 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
God that's so awkward, the super long pauses before it can even start replying, the horrible robot voice it has, and them both trying to pretend it's a wifi issue lmao.
To be fair (not that Zuck has ever done anything to earn it), wifi at enormous events like that can be super flaky and slow. Thousands of people hitting it simultaneously and it slows to a crawl.
They probably had an issue with the WiFi earlier at whatever convention this is that affected connectivity for all the attendees and so they’re joking around that that was the actual problem; being socially awkward enough to not realize that makes no sense outside the venue where no one else knows or experienced that.
So while their AI failed spectacularly on the global stage, I don’t think they really expected anyone to believe that “the WiFi did it”. It was a tongue-in-cheek joke because they didn’t have any other cover.
Certainly not - because it clearly worked, just not well. i.e., everyone else's daily experience with AI. There's no way it had a bad connection and was failing back to onboard processing on a device like this (because I bet it does zero onboard, 100% OTA), it just did a bad job. But convention wifi is congested and consistently garbage for sure. I simply meant that the long response times were likely the thing they should have been blaming on the wifi.
Wifi being slow doesn't make an AI reply bullshit, at worst it makes it reply slower or not at all
These are managed and controlled events. They would have setup dedicated wifi systems to eliminate as much interference as possible. I've worked at a couple of small scale public events for companies ... they manage things down to the smallest details to try to make sure things work as intended. The bigger the company, the bigger the budget and the more they try to control everything.
For a company like Facebook hosting a public event like this, they would have controlled absolutely everything, including the wifi .... and the only variable that they couldn't control was the AI and what it would, or not do.