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Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
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Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#72Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
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Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#73It bothers me that the headline says this is the result of AI but the article says:
> The article is credited to "Microsoft Travel," and it is likely the product of a large language model (LLM)
Can journalists not investigate claims before writing articles on them?
Yes, it's probably LLM-generated, but it wouldn't have been hard to find out and have facts in hand in the article.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#74That sounds like a surprisingly fortunate mistake, because you would hope recommending others to go to a food bank will encourage (and actually make some of) them to give something to the needy there. The suggestion the AI makes to consider going into it on an empty stomach could help the tourist to empathise with others who are less fortunate, because those are people who feel hungry every day. (Although the suggest…
the suggestion is terrible, full stop. it would be akin to someone standing outside a movie theater yelling at people because they should be spending their time fighting world hunger. sure, they might be right, but its kind of missing the point.
Thank you for the “full stop.” That always makes an argument much more persuasive.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have never heard of a food bank in Ontario offering food with passed expiration dates. I previously volunteered there and most of the food was from grocery stores/corporate donors, but not expired.
Not in Ontario, but I helped sort canned goods for a charity a few times, and they were compelled by law to be much more strict with "best by" dates and dented cans than I would be at home. I assume that approach is pretty common across North America.
Actually in the US there is a law that protects charities from being sued for providing spoiled food. The Good Samaritain Food Donation Act.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#76Great! Exit through the gift shop and donate to the cause! They should do this in every country. Proof positive that MS's AI (if that really wrote this bit) is aligned with the best interests of humanity at heart and making a real difference.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#77That sounds like a surprisingly fortunate mistake, because you would hope recommending others to go to a food bank will encourage (and actually make some of) them to give something to the needy there. The suggestion the AI makes to consider going into it on an empty stomach could help the tourist to empathise with others who are less fortunate, because those are people who feel hungry every day. (Although the suggest…
I don't understand what food banks are for. Does Canada have something like Food Stamps/WIC? Food is absurdly cheap, and not all food needs to be cooked/prepared.
Food inflation and shrinkflation in Canada has gone ballistic.
It’s not uncommon for something to cost 2-3x what it did 4 years ago, but the official figures on inflation are cooked to make it appear lower.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
the suggestion is terrible, full stop. it would be akin to someone standing outside a movie theater yelling at people because they should be spending their time fighting world hunger. sure, they might be right, but its kind of missing the point.
Thank you for the “full stop.” That always makes an argument much more persuasive.
thanks for the ad hominem. did you have anything constructive to add?
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#79Reminds me of the time someone blocked a road on Google maps by bringing a bunch of phones and staying still (or something along these lines).
https://youtu.be/k5eL_al_m7Q He put 99 smart phones in a wagon with all of them running Google maps in drive mode. Google interpreted this as a traffic jam, and made other cars avoid the area.
Oh that's totally priceless. I definitely have some use for this :)
Invisible-Roadblocks-as-a-Service courtesy of Google.
Re: Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it's weird to rely on a thing like that in the first place. Unless you were able to differentiate between locals and foreigners. Because there would be many other destinations as well, that locals would be likely to group within, but which make no sense as travel destinations. Schools, churches, workplaces, gyms, markets etc. It seems like non-locals would be unlikely to visit a food bank.
depends on the transience I guess of the people that goto them, when I was homeless at least and went to places like this in a large city many of the people were drug addicts from smaller towns or literal hobos who were there for the sake of I assume cheap drugs and social services likes food banks.
How many were traveling not residing, though, and what fraction of travelers were they?