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AI summary of toilet paper

This is the bad place.

It's fucking toilet paper. I don't need a summary.

Not only are they wasting time, energy, and screen space with this slop, it seems to have come with a bug preventing me from adding anything to my cart. I just get 403s when trying.

I can only assume management demanded engineering maximize their AI usage at the expense of boring things like testing and stability.

I hate this.

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schmorp
slrpnk.net

"Worry-free Installation" - instructions unclear, roll is now stuck in my anus. What do I do next?

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I'm guessing it really flies over the neighbor's tree, unrolling perfectly and leaving enough on the other side to throw it back across.

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I turned to Amazon's chatbot to ask if a particular appliance had a switch or a button because it wasn't obvious from the photos, and well, it got it wrong.

I honestly have no idea what anyone is actually using these things for.

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lemmy.world

I am so glad that this is where your mind went, and eternally grateful that you shared this thought.

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skeevy_scallopsreply
feddit.online

The math isn't even right unless I'm missing something.

3.9" x 4" sheets = sq in per sheet

15.6" x 224 sheets = 3494.4 sq in per roll

3494.4 / 12 = 291.2 sq ft per roll

not sure where 776.5 even came from

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lemmy.world

LLMs are notoriously bad at math.

Or rather, they're completely incapable of it. Even the most "advanced" AI systems basically just say "hmm... I think this might be a math problem" and then pass the data into a regular math API to do the calculation.

But a simple summarization bot isn't going to be wired up for calling a bunch of external tools, so... yeah, it just spits out an answer that looks statistically correct without having any real bearing on reality.

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piefed.social
  • 3.9" x 4" = 15.6 sq in per sheet
  • 15.6 / 144 = 0.11 sq ft per sheet (approx)
  • 0.11 x 224 = 24.3 sq ft per roll (approx)
  • 24.3 x 32 = 776.5 sq ft per pack (approx)
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feddit.online

Ohh that makes sense. I messed up the conversion from in to ft. Thank you intelligent stranger

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Iโ€™m going to use this when I see someoneโ€™s AI expanded bullshit that could have been a few bullet points

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If it makes you feel better, there's no "AI" involved at all.

That's the fundamental lie here.

It's just a computer computin a word salad.

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But now you know that each mega roll is actually roll^128^ and each sheet provides 776 square feet of coverage for even the slippiest messes.

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776.5 sq ft

Yeah, I made quite a mess in the latrine. Gonna need two of those.

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