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…

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    21 days ago

    There are lots of legitimate uses for AI:

    • I’ve seen it used to model components to be exactly as heavy as it needs to be, and no more, reducing weight and cost.
    • I’ve seen it used in scientific studies
    • I use it personally for writing emails, because I tend to write very short and people can be offended by my lack of fucks given about prose.
    • It’s great for transcribing and summarizing meetings, and logging actions items, to be referenced later.
    • I am required to use Google at work but I can pretty quickly find exactly the information I need in the documents in the Drive, using Gemini, where otherwise this would take a fucking eternity, because Google’s workspace search is a fucking atrocity.
    • Generally just offloading boring and menial tasks.

    The problem is:

    • how it’s being applied. Which is when no one reviews the output.
    • largely gen-AI. Lawyers showing up to court with made-up court cases.
    • People using it to research things without verifying the information with an authoritative source.
    • Marketing is pushing pushed on gen-AI so God damn hard, which is the least interesting and useful bit.