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

Don't they mean allerjen information?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 45 minutes 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] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

there is so much palm oil in that shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

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] 10 points 16 hours 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] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 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

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

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

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

I thought it was a old animated image file type.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

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

Or "crunchy."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours 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] 5 points 7 hours 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] 3 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 76 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day 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] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day 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] 18 points 23 hours 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] 5 points 19 hours 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] 5 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

it’s pronounced “jif”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

As in "we are the knights who say jif"