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Costco article has nothing to do with PB but I'm betting the AI is showing me a picture of allergic butter. Frankly dangerous.

Also unhelpful, since, if you look at my comment history, I was already aware of the Costco butter fiasco and had made a snarky comment about it.

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[–] seaQueue 102 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's almost as good as this one I got months back

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 month ago

rsync isn't that fancy, but rsync is a nicer sync than rneighborsync. In fact, their whole kytchen is pretty ugly.

[–] donuts 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Also unhelpful, since, if you look at my comment history, I was already aware of the Costco butter fiasco and had made a snarky comment about it.

Are you insinuating Google is reading your Lemmy comments and pushing you news recommendations based on those?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Considering they are not even capable of removing video recommendations for videos you literally just finished watching on Youtube I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i get that this is supposed to be a joke but just because they can't get a bug fixed doesn't mean they aren't teacking you and recommending you stuff based on your web activity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Which is probably what they spend the most time and energy perfecting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Honestly, recommendation engines are literally the most primitive shit, especially the ones by large companies.

Audible keeps recommending part 3 or 4 of series where i haven't heard part 1 or 2 or tells me there is a new title in my "favorite series", i.e.g the one where I just stopped listing half-way through a book to instead listen to something else.

Amazon also still hasn't fixed that simple thing where it keeps recommending you a second e.g. washing machine because you recently bought one.

Google recommendations were literally better 10 years ago than they are now though I suppose AI is partially to blame for that one but even before that it "helpfully corrected" searches frequently away from what I was actually looking for just because the term was similar to a more popular one.

I don't doubt that they feed it all kinds of tracking data but the actual algorithm that does anything with that data is literally about as primitive as the "chosen by fair dice roll" XKCD.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they have an android based phone, they probably are..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Unless you have a custom privacy build of Android.

That's kind of my thing really about Android yeah sure the basic model probably tracks you up the wazoo but at least you can work around it.

[–] gedaliyah 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Allergy butter" is my new name for Jif. Thanks.

[–] Zachariah 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it’s pronounced “jif”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

As in "we are the knights who say jif"

[–] Uschaan 19 points 1 month ago

This is when you turn off notifications from that app. Use the app whenever you want, not someone else or a machine.

[–] dddontshoot 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You have peanut butter named Jif? That's weird, where I come from Jif is an abrasive cleaner.

...Is your peanut butter gritty?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That one is creamy, so no. But there is gritty peanut butter, we generally refer to it as "chunky".

[–] spongebue 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the natural peanut butter - the kind that separates easily, could be better described as "gritty". Jif is not that, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Depends on how well you grind it.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 month ago

Or "crunchy."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The cleaner used to be called Jif, it's been called Cif since they started selling it in France, where "Jif" is slang for a condom lol

[–] Bourff 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Native French here, I had never heard of that word.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I thought it was a old animated image file type.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oui, il m'arrive d'inventer des choses pour le plaisir ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And my grandma still has a bottle dating back from when it wasn't called Cif yet. It's "Vim". Guess she still has it because she didn't figure out how to quit it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But also in Asian markets the J part was not easy, so needed to rebranded.

Of course what they renamed it to was the short way of saying Syphillis in the UK. It definitely wasn't a win win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

US food stand has been what they are, we can't rule out that it's not the same product.

[–] Astronauticaldb 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alright, this is a good way to show why AI is so dangerous! I usually look at thumbnails before reading article titles, so when I read the title, my brain auto replaced butter with peanut butter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Also damaging to businesses... I already knew about the butter recall and then saw this. My brain automatically filled in 'peanut butter' when reading because of the photo, and my first thought was damn, Costco fucked up again? Maybe they are going downhill in quality. Until I read the comments to realize I should reread that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

AI creates fiction that sometimes intersects with reality, in the same way that Legends & Lattes has a few real-world things like coffee shops and lattes, but the things like orcs, ratkin, succubi, and magic that comprise the rest of the details are still currently fiction.

People just need to learn to assume LLMs are always writing fiction with a handful of details borrowed from real life.

[–] udon 4 points 1 month ago

Don't they mean allerjen information?

[–] nutsack 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there is so much palm oil in that shit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s basically peanut infused Crisco, that is why you don’t have to stir it.

Stir peanut butter has one ingredient: peanuts. Try it sometime, high odds you will not go back.

Crisco peanut butter is for filling rodent traps and that is all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, we like it, but you either need to store it in the refrigerator or stir it every time, which really sucks, especially if you only eat it occasionally.

When I lived closer to a WinCo (across the street), I would just go get fresh made peanut butter every so often when we ran out, and it wasn't an issue. Now we get bigger portions, and it's a pain having to stir it since we only eat it a couple times/month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Store it upside down in the fridge, that usually solves the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The fridge is the important factor here because cold makes it separate slower. But then it's hard to spread, especially for almond butter.

We end up taking it out of the fridge a bit before needing it, which helps, but it's still a nuisance, and if I forget to put it back for whatever reason, I have to go re-mix it, which takes a few minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

All the talk of idiocracy this week (yes it’s only been a little over a week…we’re in Trump time again…), this is definitely a piece of the idiocracy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I also got that article recommendation and had a good laugh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I just hate corporations abusing our data.

Why is there still no-AI platform?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh that's semantic bleeding in the wild.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline 1 points 1 month ago

I know their article is bogus, but I could see some one trying claiming this...

"Omg this peanut butter didn't say it contained peanut butter, so I thought it was safe for little Billy. Now he's dead and its all their fault for not labeling the peanut butter properly"