An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.

  • The Assman@sh.itjust.works
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    when do we start blaming people for asking for such things?

    On the same day that we start blaming people for spilling hot McDonald’s coffee on themselves

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        Look I probably hate McDonald’s more than any of you but as I see it:

        • the woman ordered coffee in the drive thru in a vehicle with no cup holders
        • held the cup between her knees rather than, ya know, placing it on a flat surface
        • spilled the coffee on herself while taking off the lid

        While McDonald’s:

        • made the coffee too hot

        It’s clear after the case that McDonald’s coffee was exceptionally hot, but there was clearly an irresponsible chain of decisions that led to her getting burnt.

        The jury found that McDonald’s was 80% responsible. I just think it’s more like 50%.

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          Too bad you weren’t on the jury, because you could have been educated on the situation and have a valid opinion on the subject.

          Or you could actually look up real information and find out what exactly McDonald’s was being punished for, and how they exacerbated the situation over and over.

          Safety standards are not created with the expectation that everyone else acts perfectly safely, safety standards are designed that people can have accidents and not be maimed due to cost cutting from a giant, multinational corporation. McDonald’s deserves that judgement, the media demonized the victim, and you are perpetuating that myth.

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          Your comments are like when a schoolchild who hasn’t read the assigned material has to present in front of the class.

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          The coffee was hot enough to cause serious burns and fused her labia together and required skin grafts.

          I’ve spilled freshly brewed coffee on myself at home and while it burned, I did not need any medical attention.

          The woman did nothing wrong. The product sold by McDonald’s was purposely overly dangerous. Had she known it was that fucking hot, she probably wouldn’t have put it between her legs. McDonald’s did not properly indicate that their coffee was abnormally hot to the point of causing severe safety risks.

          It’s like if I buy my fifth alcoholic drink in a night, and the bartender gives me straight everclear to drink. I know I’m taking a risk by having another drink, but I’m not expecting to drink nearly pure alcohol and get alcohol poisoning from it.

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      Says the idiot clearly unfamiliar with the details of their cited reference. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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      Yeah, how dare we blame the people who knew about the problem and chose not to fix it until someone was horrifically burned? And can you believe the gall of that woman to dare to ask for her medical bills to be paid by the people who knowingly setup the conditions to horrifically burn her?

      The nerve of some people. Smh my head

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        If I buy ice cream I expect it to be cold. If I buy coffee I expect it to be hot. If I buy a knife I expect it to be sharp and so on.

        I don’t want stores to start selling dull knives because out of thousand customers there’s always one who instantly cuts themselves. We don’t need to round every sharp corner in the world so that no one ever gets hurt again. If you can’t handle a bewerage you know to be hot with care then that’s on you.

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          What if you bought an ice cream cone and it was so cold that you had to get skin grafts to repair the damage to your lips? And not only that, but the owner of the store instructed the employees to make it that cold?

          The McDonald’s woman’s risk calculation was probably “if this spills, it will hurt” and not, “if this spills, it will do permanent, significant damage to my body”.

          Why would anyone prefer living in a world where some property of any item you buy could intentionally be set to dangerously extreme levels?

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            If I remember correctly, one of the main reasons she burned so bad was the type of pants she was wearing which soaked up the hot coffee and stuck to her skin. They were arguing that lowering the temperature certain amount would greatly increase the time for severe burns to happen, which is a fair point but would still come with its downsides. Coffee snobs like me want their cups fresh and hot. It doesn’t make sense to me to prevent the coffee shop from serving me fresh coffee because someone spilled such coffee on herself. In certain cases we just gotta accept that addicents happen and to me this seems like one of them. Like I said; wouldn’t make much sense to sell dull knives either.

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              Won’t someone think of the poor coffee snobs who want their coffee just so, but don’t want to have to make it themselves at home? We can’t sacrifice their ideal coffee temperature at public establishments just to save some people from horrific burns — people who are probably wearing the wrong pants anyway, and therefore are kind of at fault too, when you think about it.

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                You ran out of arguments so you just start acting like a prick instead? That’s productive and very Lemmy of you.

                • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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                  No, it’s just that your response was absurd. You didn’t answer my question, rehashing some points that I had already addressed and not answering my question. I found your response repetitive, uncurious, and selfish to the point of parody.

                  I was starting to write a different kind of answer, and I thought, why am I indulging this person who isn’t even taking the time to process what I’ve already written?

            • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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              My coffee maker makes coffee that is fresh and hot. So does my local shop. It still doesn’t literally melt my skin if some gets on my hand. Dumbfuck.

      • The Assman@sh.itjust.works
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        Haha yeah they called the woman, told her to buy a coffee in the drive thru and handle it in the most careless way possible. Here’s an idea: go buy a rake from Home Depot, set it on the ground, step on it, bonk your forehead, and sue Home Depot for damages. After all, they’re selling a dangerous product and if you use it irresponsibly, that’s on them.

        All these armchair legal experts acting like her winning the case means she isn’t partly to blame are hilarious.