Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness'

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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Haven’t been there in a couple decades, but that kind of 1984 BS would put them from passively skipping to actively disliking.

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  • other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    If you want a really good book comparison, the short story “Manna” starts off with an AI being used to manage a fast food joint.

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So you make a joke that the AI didn’t underatood with a client or maybe a dark humor joke with a coworker and then you are fired

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alternately, nothing interesting at all happens, and the AI just has one of it’s frequent hallucinations, and I’m fired.

    There’s a special level of sociopathy happening to put today’s AI in charge of anyone’s livelihood.

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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Talk about sending the wrong message! Some of us appreciate depressed, angsty teens behind the counter because it reminds us of our youth!

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is politeness even financially important in chains like BK & McD (would their revenue even go down if employees stopped pretending to give a fuck)? Or are they doing just to fuck with lowly plebs they call employees?

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  • mracton@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was refreshing visiting fast food places abroad where they seemed very happy to sell me the food. However, that was a culture that already valued conformity and having an agreeable public front at all times.

    Nonetheless, surveillance culture is absurd. If they want people to seem happy to be there, they should make the people who are there as happy as they can.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh totally, I didn’t even comment on the horrendous mass surveillance, by AI no less.

      We should push to outlaw shit like this.

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• U7826391786239@piefed.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the public school system uses AI to monitor the students’ online messaging platform. one of the kids made some juvenile poop joke with a metaphor involving explosions– they evacuated and locked down the entire campus for the whole day

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  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    wicked, they should keep doing that joke then. literally… keep having the school show how stupid they are

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would’ve tried to exploit it soo many times already

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• linule@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Very dystopic, and inviting to refuse going to burger king again, but it also begs the question of how humane these jobs are in the first place. In an ideal scenario, people would be entirely replaced by AI (while not losing their income).

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Their food is reason enough not to go there again. It tastes like somebody dragged the finished patty through the remains of a campfire. But yeah, this won’t turn out well for them.

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• Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The mid '00s was peak BK. I haven’t eaten at one in like 6 years and have zero plans to ever go again. I’ll boycott as many companies that use AI as I can.

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• dukeofdummies@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh God I forgot about that mascot. That is absolutely the way to protest this. He was purposely creepy as hell.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As soon as AI Psychosis makes it into the diagnostic and statistical manual we all need to get it, get AI to be supportive of killing your bosses… Then kill some bosses.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The AI described in this article is already whispering in people’s ears, so the psychosis might happen sooner than you’d expect.

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• SomGye@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sheetz has been doing this for years too unfortunately

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