Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈6d ago

Imagine upsetting people so much with your thoughtlessness that you get arrested.
Maybe people will think twice before letting the AI make the decisions.
Maybe....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/starbucks-south-korea-tank-day-promotion-blunder
#AI #AIHustle #Starbucks #SouthKorea #Business #History

How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea

A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm

The Guardian
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

Are they as powerless against Toxic Masculinity online as the rest of us then? Anything but shut down the worst corners of the Internet isn't it? We'll need ID to check our emails but the 4chans of the Internet will still carry on...

#Internet #4Chan #ToxicMasculinty

Jun 16 at 12:28pmWeb
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈6d ago
The sociopaths who run these companies don't care about our morals and values, we're all suckers to them for not being ruthless and greedy. They spit on our values.
#TechBros #Oligarchs
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK6d ago
@Lazarou my experience of feeding an AI with anything other than English is it kind of works, but mangles the context (mixing up UK specific results and those of the country you are searching for info from), but if it returned these suggestions that clearly suggests most of its training material must have come from the right-wing edgelord sites (which unless restricted by a nations Communications Ministry) tend to get left wide open as "free speech" (and to attract advertising) so easy pickings for AI bots..
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈6d ago
@vfrmedia these AI models don't filer out Nazi crap, because the people running this scam are nazis.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK6d ago

@Lazarou I would go so far as to say a *lot* of the tech community worldwide are authoritarians/nazis (including quite a few involved with FOSS products) - otherwise they wouldn't also have jumped to add the age verification even to some parts of Linux (when even Microsoft isn't doing that just yet!).

Certainly in my own youth nearly everyone who was in to tech was a Thatcho bootlicker, hence why I didn't work in this industry directly myself until late 1990s..

Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈6d ago
@vfrmedia fash bootlickers are holding Technology back...
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK6d ago
@Lazarou they want to go back to the 1970s/80s where the military industrial complex got the best stuff, everyone else got crumbs from the table and white men dominated the industry (those days are in my own living memory, I grew up in Reading which was (and to some extent still is) a hub of the British tech industry...
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈6d ago
@vfrmedia Pale Male and Stale....