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Hey, I'm done with your order! As a special treat I bought you a can of Shitty Brand baked beans that costs $27 for some reason!
I really don't understand why people use AI if it has access to your money or anything private or important. That's insane.
Imagine having consumer rights and being able to return online purchases for 14 days, no reason needed. Wait... So imagine buying a burger online... Ah, forget it, you wouldn't understand.
Tech bros are so distant from human experience they forgot that people actually enjoy shopping because it's one of the few places they have any fucking control left
I read an article yesterday in the NYT about people with student debt simply fleeing to a foreign country to start their life over there and giving the middle finger to the debt collectors. Of course the NYT had to include some law brain saying it was a bad idea and suggesting instead a legal workaround for them to make before they left. But people just want to be free.
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Praxis.
...we do?
You've never gone and explored a thrift shop or an antique store? Or stopped at a roadside produce stall some farmer put up to operate on the honor system? Or just fucked around in a mall with some friends? You don't need to purchase anything to shop, but the act of looking at stuff is inherently kind of engaging and so corporations try to lure you into taking the stuff home.
They're so enamored with the space age "in five years robots will do everything for us!" conceit that they're willing to retrofit a technology very much not meant for such a purpose, regardless of consequence. Like taking that drug that gives you hyperthermia for weight loss
At least before there was some logic - stupid logic yes but logic nonetheless when people started to entirely give up privacy for convenience online at Facebook, Instagram, etc. I don't care about privacy - I want to easily-as-possible share intimate details of my life with my friends!
But now it beggars belief. Reddit will eventually have a very popular sub called r/AIfuckedme or something. And posts will be like "AI fucked me and charged me $1,000 for tickets to a show by a band called Art House Roses. And the band doesn't even exist! Plus ScrewUai refused me a refund!"
Gee - you don't say. Who couldda seen that coming?