Lying to large corporation.
Quick story to go along with this. I purchased a new in the box playpen from a used clothing and good sale. After opening it and setting it up, it seems like it was missing a hole to attach one of the secondary accessories to this playpen. Everything else was working and this was something that was a nice to have add on.
After a week of trying to prove that I purchased this item and is actually missing that hole, I was informed this was unreplaceable but I could get a refund. After I said I wanted a refund I was informed that I needed to destroy the entire item to get the $50 refund and send them pictures. So I had to either destroy the only functional part of this item or find a picture that looks like I did. I decided on lying and used a Gen-AI image tool to create this. It ended up working out and I am getting the refund without breaking anything. If they are forcing this technology down our throats, I will use to circumvent stupid policies. Hopefully the energy used to create the photo is less than the energy needed to create a one playpen.
Obviously this is just theory because who would steal from a large corporation…
Cool you used a ridiculous amount of water and power to stick it to a company.
Yup. Instead of using ridiculous amount of water, energy and money to throw away a perfectly thing to get a replacement thing.
Anyone participating in capitalism has been doing all sorts of damage, this is just a new level. Throw rocks, but realize there’s glass walls everywhere.
I fucking hate the environmental impact of AI, but in this instance I think using it to prevent something from being thrown away likely outweighs it. Whether it’s wood, plastic, or metal, all of them probably use more resources to create a new pen than to create an image of it.
That was my thought. It felt so wasteful to throw something away that works