Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover
Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover
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The menu item in question reads as follows:
Chicken Pops
Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood.
What the fuck is this title? Please tell me a real summary.
Website Uses AI for Headline, Accidentally Writes Headline in Way So Stupid That We May Never Recover
People who naievely pipe AI output directly to end users are ignoring the fundamental principle that writers need editors. AI isn't at fault any more than a junior copywriter would be at fault for screwing up. In both cases their job is to produce rough copy which an editor is supposed to make a pass over. The problem lies with the management decision to remove the human editor from the process.
Mediocre managers have always looked for magic bullets to fix problems they aren't smart enough to handle. They'll bring in consultants who give a seminar and leave a set of binders behind, and say do everything this way now, believing the sales pitch that said it would revolutionize the whole department. These same talentless managers are embracing AI with the same false hopes and implementing it just as clumsily.
Hey, if eating "Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus" is wrong then I absolutely fucking LOVE being right.
Do companies no longer have Quality Assurance at all now? You don't even need like a whole department, just make it part of someone's job. This is crazy that there's no proofreading.
I know of 4 companies in the last 2 months that laid off their entire QA departments. With the expectation that product and engineers will pick up the QA work with the reasoning that you can use AI to be more productive and help with quality assurance tasks. Historically, in my experience, QA departments are the only ones that actually have any documentation and knowledge of how the product works... Better than the product department.
Replaced with Ai
Quality Assurance would happen after the AI.
tldr:
"Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus," the dish description from Sikar's Royal Roll Express restaurant reads. "Common in childhood."
A misreading of the dish name in question — "Chicken Pops" — could well explain why an AI may have spat out a description for what sounds an awful lot like chicken pox, a common childhood virus that causes the exact kind of nasty "blister-like bumps" detailed on the menu.
Dunno, in my childhood machine-translated things possessed some charm. Or when translations were by clueless people. Druids in Star Wars instead of droids, for example.
Another way for corporations to lie to consumers and fake the quality of their products.
They are so desperate to make the little line go up sharper. SMH
Here's what we do. We all stop buying.
Stop buying what?
Yes.
Stop.
Line goes down until they stop.
They're bundling AI into everything, from operating systems to office software. No one is buying anything when they're forcing it down our throats in things we already own.
If boycotts actually worked, we wouldn't have these sorts of problems in the first place.
"Just don't buy it" is a cancerous thought-terminating cliche, not a solution!
Do we need to start review bombing sites that are doing this similar to how review bombs happen on Steam?
I'm against the idea, personally. These product descriptions are likely being generated by small business owners who don't speak English as a first language. It's not their fault that these LLM translators are garbage.
I'm just dumbfounded they'd ask AI to write the menu without having tasted any of the food.
They're lazy and cheap, and now they're gonna pay for it.
Ah ha ha, hahaha, ha ha, ha ha ha, ha!
Someone didn't proofread.
We being the restaurant? I'm not clicking such a broken title.