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…
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but maybe together they can make one thing slightly less wrong. Interesting take.
Exactly. Perfect is the enemy of good. This may not be right but is better than other options. If I can circumvent wasteful and stupid corporate policies which are screwing me, I will do the same back
Look, you do you, but… I think you’ve essentially just confessed to committing fraud in writing, on the Internet. This case is probably not a big enough deal for anyone to spend time and energy trying to prosecute it, but it’s generally a bad idea. Everything here is publicly accessible.
Ugh. You are so right. I hate the new internet where even pseudo-anonymous things can be traced back. I might have to delete this
You could edit the post to say that you theoretically could do this, but never would in real life.
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.
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
