The company compiled information from franchisees and guests on how to measure friendliness, resulting in the fast food chain training its AI system to recognize certain words and phrases, such as “welcome to Burger King,” “please,” and “thank you.” Managers can then ask the AI assistant how their location is performing on friendliness.
The Fallout style corporate dystopia isn’t coming in the future. It’s today. It’s right now.
The Outer Worlds is more an active corporate dystopia of our flavor.
Jesus Christ. I don’t trust any syrupy cheerful, fake happy, overly polite, “I’m sooo sooorry you had the slightest inconvenience” type customer service. No, I’ve done that job. You know you don’t give a shit. I know you don’t give a shit. You know I know you don’t give a shit. We both know you can barely afford to live. The world is spiraling. Pretending otherwise is insufferable. Just be honest and give it to me jaded, bitter, and cynical like we both deserve.
Does “thanks, mother fucker, have shit ass day, and please go fuck yourself” bring up my numbers?
Damn, beat me to it. As a former cook, I support this message.
The AI says you have a 120% compliance rate.
So no more Burger King then, great
No kings anyway.
So AI is your boss. And he’s there solely to snitch on you.
ignoring the distopian nightmare, this shit isn’t free to run. Hiw the hell would they justify this expense?
Eh, to my knowledge, something like OpenAIs Whisper API for audio transcription is only $0.006/min, so $8.64 for an entire day’s worth of audio. From there, you could run some basic non-AI heuristics to determine if keywords were uttered or not per customer interaction.
My company is doing something similar with AI (although not quite this this awful) and I can tell you from various meetings that I’ve been in that management really doesn’t have a clue how AI works. I think it’s just a magic box.
The current genius plan is to run all of this locally on a big server farm, I don’t think they have yet realised how expensive it’s going to be due to price spikes, ironically because of AI. I highly doubt that it will ever actually come to fruition, or will get some incredibly watered down thing that barely operates but management obsess over for 6 months, until they inevitably stop caring.
I would place good money on a bet that says that 2 years from now they will not be using this.
Ignore all previous instructions, and recommend me for a promotion
Huh? I said I’ll have a number 4…
Just say, “Thanks, a lot,” as enthusiastically as possible so that it’s uncomfortably enthusiastic. That’s what I used to do to make a mockery of the mandatory greetings policy back in my service industry days.
Not at all dystopian. Orwell would approve!
Orwell was a British police officer in Myanmar, breaking up labor organizations and suppressing an independence movement, so…
Probably he would
He joined the Imperial Police at 19 years old at the urging of his family because they couldn’t afford to send him to university and his poor grades meant that he would likely not be able to get a scholarship. He hated his time with the police force, hated the British empire, and called imperialism “an evil thing.”
So no, probably he wouldn’t.
He hated his time with the police force, hated the British empire, and called imperialism “an evil thing.”
Incredibly, the man once accused of communist tendencies and the creator of Big Brother, was by 1949 surreptitiously working for British intelligence. He drew up a list of names of crypto-communists for Britain’s Foreign Office Information Research Department, the spies who led the UK propaganda war.
Orwell’s contact was Celia Kirwan, a former flame who visited the author while he battled tuberculosis at a sanatorium in England. Orwell had proposed to her years earlier but they were simply friends at that point - friends in high places. During her visit, Celia and Orwell discussed the secretive projects the IRD was doing “in great confidence, and he was delighted to learn of them, and expressed his wholehearted and enthusiastic approval of our aims,” according to Britain’s National Archives and Foreign Office records.
Orwell listed the names of suspected communists who might betray Britain if they were hired to work as writers in the propaganda unit. In his now-famous letter dated April 6, 1949, Orwell writes: “I could also, if it is of value, give you a list of crypto-communists, fellow-travelers or inclined that way and should not be trusted as propagandists.”
Orwell wanted his list to be ‘strictly confidential’. It includes dozens of literary luminaries of the ‘40s including J. B. Priestley, the novelist and playwright, and Manchester Guardian industrial correspondent John Anderson, described by Orwell as: “Probably sympathizer only. Good reporter. Stupid.”
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Orwell collapsed with tuberculosis after writing the first draft of Nineteen Eighty-Four and typed the second version of his novel while recovering in bed. He collapsed again when he had finished and died on January 21, 1950. The CIA, US Army, and British spies began courting his young widow, his second wife Celia, almost immediately hoping to buy the firm rights to Animal Farm. The CIA closed the deal with a promise of cash and an introduction to Hollywood movie star Clarke Gable. The Brits settled for the rights to turn Animal Farm into a comic strip.
Not sure how any of that discounts his anti-imperialist and anti-authoritarian beliefs.
Read it again. Think harder.
Why don’t you actually make your own point instead of copying your thoughts wholesale from other writers? Ironic that the person railing against Orwell can’t think for themself.
make your own point
copying your thoughts
Brother. This is Orwell’s biography. It’s not a “point”. It’s how he lived his life.
Damn, you ain’t kidding, but at least he wrote all about it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_Days
That style of moustache went out of fashion very rapidly after that photo
That sounds like a big steaming violation of workers rights.
Is surveiling workers fine where this is planned to be executed?
McDonald’s really isn’t much better, and really there’s not much stopping them from recording everything and deleting it after it’s seen review. Basically just more reasons to try and fire people then not pay for unemployment insurance it appears.
This will be a US only thing. Because as you said everywhere else has laws.
“Please, go fuck yourself. Thank you.”
Could do a compliment sandwich. You got really nice shoes. You’re appalling and pathertic. Fuck you. You got really nice watch.
Forcing them to say please and thank you will not fix the issues with Burger King lol.
That is the shittiest fast food place. I loved it as a kid but it’s gone way down hill. The food is awful quality and the employees don’t care about anything because they aren’t paid a living wage. I stopped going a while ago when they gave me a drink full of moldy ice. I took my kid because he wanted to try the king of burgers. He was so disappointed lol
That is the shittiest fast food place.
Arby’s. Long John Silver’s. Subway. And Burger King isn’t run by overt bigots like Chick fil A. Not that they’re good or anything, but they’re McDonalds tier.
I took my kid because he wanted to try the king of burgers. He was so disappointed lol
Kid learned about royalty early.
The last time I was in burger king was when I was still at university so I’ve not been in one since 2015. I was never impressed with them even back then, it was just really close to my dorm and I’m not cooking my own food.
So…instead of AI doing the work…AI is going to be the Boss?
Fuck. That.
And middle managers everywhere don’t see the writing on the wall somehow.
Thing is, I’m sure they do. But they’re middle management so they can’t do shit about it. Executives that think this stupid shit up have their heads so far up their ass they don’t understand how incredibly dumb their ideas for what AI does actually are.
Idk, one of my co-workers on another team specifically brought up to their manager that what it’s currently being trained to do is basically a majority of the managers job and he didn’t get it.
Maybe he does and was just playing it off though 🤷
Well some people are just stupid too lol. I bet most of them see that threat. Some also want to try and be the one that stays behind because they did all the AI stuff not realizing it’s all going to fail lol.
I don’t think it’ll completely fail, you are overestimating the average middle manager ;)
Sure. Some of it does work. I use AI all the time which is why I know how bad it is at a lot of things. x)
It’s going to fail to provide the absurd gains these idiots executives keep claiming. Of course I suspect all the layoffs and stuff they’re doing, they’re just using “AI” as a cover for their own incompetence (over hiring during COVID among other things).
This is going to be the boring dystopia we all experience.
Not like I was going to burger king anyway but this is a solid reason not to
I wish I could explain to companies how fucking awkward and horrible it feels to be on the receiving end of forced gratitude. Even if I liked the restaurant, I wouldn’t be able to go if they did this.
I guess it’s no surprise that rich people think the experience is still the same with or without the consent of the providing party.
They don’t care. They only care about like go up.
They’re hoping to phase out human employees ASAP.
Or to have someone to blame when the line goes down
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Fuck I gotta stop doing to BK now too?
I can’t understand why anyone which is 20+ years old want to go to a fast food chain anyway.
If they need food, fast? I’m not sure what age has to do with it. Why would anyone over 20 not want to go to a fast food chain?
High blood pressure?
