Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Doordash, Google AI, French Wikipedia (Vol. 16)
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Good intentions, bad results.
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Part One: We Knead Dough
The Year: 2019
The Problem: Restaurants aren't signing up for DoorDash.
The Solution: Prove its value by adding restaurants for free-without notification or permission. Once presented with the sales data, restaurants will sign up in droves!
Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out, people don't like it when you mess with their business. Restaurants that never offered delivery were suddenly getting complaints and bad reviews about orders arriving cold. The owner of AJ's Pizzeria in Kansas was surprised to find his restaurant on the app, and that his $26 specialty pizza was being sold for just $16. So he ordered some. A lot, in fact. He even filled boxes with plain dough to increase his profit on each transaction (unlike DoorDash, which lost $668 million dollars in 2019).
Like most jokes, it's all in the delivery.
Part Two: Prompt Replies
The Year: 2024
The Problem: Google's search dominance is being challenged by ChatGPT.
The Solution: Develop an AI to provide helpful summaries and answers to Google queries.
Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?
Turns out, the internet is…well, the internet. The AI began to parrot facts and tips from sites like The Onion and Reddit-insisting that former President Barack Obama was Muslim, that gasoline can be used in cooking, and recommending eating rocks as a vital source of vitamins and minerals. It even suggested adding glue to pizza, a tip internet sleuths tracked down to a decade-old Reddit post by a user named "Fucksmith."
But that does lend credibility to its assertion that parrots can cook.
Part Three: Wikipedi-duh
The Year: 2013
The Problem: There's a Wikipedia article about a classified French military radio installation!
The Solution: Demand Wikipedia delete the page.
Sounds like they've never heard of the Streisand effect! What could possibly go wrong?
It turns out, that's not how Wikipedia works. Since facts in the article were sourced from a publicly available interview with an Air Force Major stationed there. Wikipedia balked at the idea that the page contained classified data and refused to delete it without further clarification. At which point French authorities said, "Oh, that makes sense, never mind."
Just kidding.
They summoned the president of Wikimedia France and threatened him with arrest and imprisonment. He deleted the entry but made sure to alert others that reposting the page would be a crime. The next day a Swiss contributor restored it-and the ensuing controversy briefly made it the most-read page on French Wikipedia, which is now available in 38 different languages.
And yeah, we added a link: en.wikipedia.o...
Great moments in unintended consequences: good intentions, bad results.
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I’m convinced that if a politician pushed over a domino, he would be truly flabbergasted that a domino on the other side of the room fell over.
And would quickly blame an unlikely culprit thousands of miles away.
_"he would be truly flabbergasted that a domino on the other side of the room fell over."_ It is called "Not being able to see past one's nose." It runs rampant in leftist liberal delusional land.
Only one out of three is from the government?!? Don't tell me you ran out of government material!
Couldn't have. They have yet to touch The New Deal.
Believe it or not, huge corporations blunder miserably as well as governments.
@@1krani Ooh ooh they _need_ to do that one. Get the popcorn!!! 🍿
The government now intends all of the consequences they bring forth - that's the issue
With rising collusion of corporate and government the distinction is fading.
In 2006, Google Image Labeler was released, a gamification where you and a random partner were shown an image from Google Images and had to provide a description, with points awarded for saying the same thing. What could possibly go wrong?
At first it backfired because players kept picking the simplest descriptor (e.g. "man" instead of "Bill Gates'). But soon players figured out that it didn't matter if they were right, they just got points for matching what their partner was doing. Some players started labeling _every image_ as "congenita" and a few other obscure words. Players partnered with them realized they would get no points if they played legitimately and maximum points if they too started labeling everything as "congenita". Thus the game quickly devolved and Google wound up with loads of useless data.
How about California trying to address the homelessness problem by throwing billions of dollars at it, creating a new bureaucracy that thrives on homelessness remaining a problem and getting worse?
yes.
They did the same thing with drug addiction.
They have government funded crack crack consumption in Los Angeles 😭
There were never good intentions behind that.
Didn't they already discuss that in one of these?
All of this is what I like to call "1-Step Thinking"....with no consideration beyond.
A lot....a lot of people engage in 1-step thinking and are shocked by the results.
So much this. A lot of politicians are plagued by this sort of thinking. And then there are people on TwiXter and Reddit...
I see it all the time at the hotel I work at - summer weekends we're often sold out as that's when most weddings and local events happen. Every single weekend I get no less than ten requests to check in early on the day of the wedding so they can get ready because the wedding is at 2pm. Check in is 3pm, and since it's a Saturday, we were likely sold out the night before so there aren't any rooms ready for early check in.
The other prevalent example is the people who don't think about how weekends at hotels are busy and wait until 9 or 10pm on Fri/Sat night to find a room, only to discover they're all sold out. Similarly, we have about ten long-term residents who only book one day at a time and don't consider on Monday that their room might not be available on Friday, then act like it's our fault that we didn't do anything to hold "their" room.
i think it's most commonly called "first order thinking" or simply "short-sightedness"
That’s a good descriptor!
The bone archeology story referenced in Bill Bryson’s A short history of nearly everything should be a good one. They paid locals to find fragments of bone, so the locals found skeletons and broke them into many bits to get more money.
That's the "snake farming, rat tails" premise all over again. They should absolutely cover it lol
Also the dolphin trash collection incident.
Dolphins realized that the reward for bringing trash out of their tank was the same no matter the size of the trash, so they started stashing trash and tearing small pieces off to get more rewards. Then they would get their reward and use it as bait to hunt seagulls, and then turn the seagulls in for more rewards.
The same thing happened with scrolls in the Holy Land.
Putting carp in the U.S. ponds and lakes. Due to flooding, they got into the Mississippi River ... and they are so invasive that the government had to build an ELECTRIC barrier to prevent them from getting into the Great Lakes.
@@samanthawoods8000 that’s a tourist attraction in PA by the way. You can feed the carp at the dam and they are the size of freaking Beagles
@@mikesun9009 Are you being Koi with us?
That was never good intentioned. It was selfish idiots who wanted to fish these beastly things and forgot that floods can happen
"Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions, what could possibly go wrong!" never gets old, cracks me up every time
We all know that EVERYTHING goes wrong, that's why it's called "good intentions, bad results"
The overuse of Large Language Models is getting ridiculous. They are not ready for the public yet and are useless in 90% of the applications they are being shoehorned into.
They are now some of the top contributors to comment sections on every major platform, especially YT.
Whenever you see a beyond-idiot-level reply in the comment section that is somehow grammatically perfect every time yet has zero relevance to anything in play in a thread, the odds are it's one of those bots.
It infuriates me that Google not only puts its crappy, error ridden AI at the top of their search results, but also won’t let you disable it!
I use gpt but take it with grain of salt on anything important and orrect it when its wrong. Sometimes it doubes down on stupid
Always remember to 100% trust everything a guy named F*cksmith says.
What NEEDS to happen is at least 3-6 well-marketed interviews with whomever "flunksmith" actually was. I think the world needs to hear his or her thoughts on how DUMB algorithmic jank is for having "scraped" the pizza + glue comment. It's almost as m0r0πi¢ as Google quoting The Onion as "legitimate" advice on any given topic. 🙄 It's like... are you bloody MAD?! Seriously, how could you permit this?! Couldn't you eeeaaasily block algorithms from sourcing parodies, unscientific data, and other creative comedy routines by "flunksmith" types?! 🙄 I mean that is EMBARRASSINGLY obtuse.
If we cannot trust F*cksmith, then who can we trust?!
DoorDash should be criminally liable for reputation damage of those businesses
No. Any person negatively reviewing the business because their pizza was cold after some DoorDasher had it for half an hour after it was handed off by the business is a moron and shouldn’t be allowed to leave reviews. People need to stop blaming businesses for what happens during third party delivery. Now, for places like McDonalds, etc…where you can order delivery directly through their own app and they farm it out to DD or UE, I can see blaming them because they took responsibility by offering delivery directly.
@@lq7777 thepart about without gaining notice was wrong. But 30 minute should not make a pizza cold. And, sometimes it is the places fault. I use door dash with pizza place and the have good pizza but they oftren got the soft drink wrong its missing. I have lately been asking the drbter to mak sure the pop order is rght and they get the pop. Also, i told the place about the isssue telling them they are losing money everytme they forget the pop. Some times the places take 30 minuter or more to call for pizza. And, it must havbe actually worke as now door dash is the numbrer deiver of food in america
@@lq7777 DD should be held liable for enabling idiots to harm a business' reputation then.
King Frederick II wanted people to eat potatoes to stop famines, but people refused because they were foreign and looked ugly and dogs wouldn't eat them. Then he grew potatoes in a guarded compound and said those potatoes would ONLY be available to royalty. People immediately started stealing them and even growing their own to spite the King who was hoarding them for himself.
This would be a good twist on your series.
Wow. A wise king. Those are unknown to us in the modern world.
'And yeah, we put a link in the description.'
😆
literally a middle finger
Yep we’re all getting banned from France
The BT tower was constructed in the 1960's as the main hub for the entire British telecom infrastructure, civilian commercial and military all used it.
Security was so vital that they left it off maps for decades........ this is a 620 foot tall spire visible from most of London!!!
It was featured on an episode of Doctor Who in the late 60's and Blue Peter even showed how you could make a scale model of it with loo rolls and sticky backed plastic.
It's too early and probably not funny enough, but California's fast food minimum wage is a great example of government not understanding the laws of unintended consequences.
I kinda think California wants to put fast food out of business. The law isn't for the workers but rather to give smaller local food shops an advantage over big chain fast food restaurants. Sure, they sell it as helping fast food workers, but it really isn't.
Except those smaller places have extremely thing profit margins.
Big chain places can take the hit because they function on an (inter)national scale.
But small stores if they start making a loss just close down straight away
@@dinoblacklane1640 Which is why the minimum wage has so many provisions and exceptions built into it.
Liberals think every fast food restaurant is sitting on a vast fortune they're just refusing to share with employees out of greed. That's why they were shocked when restaurants closed and prices went up after the wage hike.
@@dinoblacklane1640 You know most fast food chains are franchises and thus owned locally. They often aren't owned by the huge company that they are named for but rather a local guy owns the local fast food joint. They also have slim profit margins.
Pittsburgh PA in 2020 stopped graduating police officers. Now the don’t have enough to staff all shifts. Between 3am and 7am you have to call a number and leave a message
😱
"if you are being shot at, press 1 and leave a message"
@@nicholasvinen lol basically. A family member had their parked car obliterated by a drunk driver. They tried to call the cops, got the machine. They luckily saw a cop driving past and flagged them down and informed them of the situation…
It's almost like treating all police as evil only leads to more problems or something.
I wonder if subjecting police departments to free market capitalistic competition would raise their quality.
I will leave this meaningless comment, with the best of intentions.
What could possibly go wrong.
It turns out, people on the internet will comment for no reason whatsoever
Gotta beat that algorithm baby
My boss just caught me on UA-cam reading comments and now I got fired :(
What could possibly go wrong? Well let me tell you by starting a rant that insults your physical appearance and parentage. After that, I'll continue the randomly angry rant by insinuating your mental capacity is significantly lower than average and imply you vote for unfavorable politicians. Once that is complete I shall do a 180 and begin advertising a website that seems a little fishy with its promise of free money. And then to conclude things I shall insult your physical appearance once more and leave a closing string of swear-filled sentences.
@@caulairdis How did I not see this coming?!
Red Light Cameras are a great candidate.
Most cities with them have been caught red-handed adjusting the yellow light time (looking at you Knoxville) in hopes of generating additional revenue from them. Also they've backfired in Tennessee to where they've been ruled that you have the right to face your accuser, being some guy behind a desk from the company that installed them and leased them to the city. AKA: You don't have to pay the ticket!
Another one is the 11-Foot-8 Bridge in Durham, NC. Yes, the UA-cam-famous one. A few years ago the bridge was raised 8 inches to make the tracks level with nearby train crossings, and they've installed a fancy traffic light that turns red when an overheight truck is incoming. It's ended up with slightly more truck crashes because trucks tend to floor it when the light turns yellow.
I hope they don't fix the bridge problem. I like watching the videos of idiots can opening their box trucks.
@@divinecomedian2, "idiots"?? Yep, I'm sure you've NEVER missed a warning sign in your driving, er,,,I mean, comic career. I have watched the bridge collisions, but, I don't take pleasure in it like you do.
They even added a sign that says "overheight must turn" that only lights up when an overheight truck appears. There's nothing more they can do at this point, other than add another sign below that that says, "This means you."
Red-light cameras cause MORE accidents, from people slamming on the brakes at yellow lights and getting rear-ended.
Well in all fairness yes you COULD use gasoline in cooking.
This is of course, completely different from whether or not you SHOULD.
"And yeah, we put a link in the description"
I always appreciate a channel ran by mad lads who know what the audience wants.
I did a few Uber food deliveries (and this would be a year or two before the DoorDash fiasco). Twice there were orders for food places that were closed. 🥴
Once it was a suppertime order for a sandwich deli that had lunch hours only. Closed at 16:00.
The other was for a McDonald's drive-thru. The location was open late but not as late as I liked to drive. I think it closed at midnight and I was getting called over there at half-past. I drove through so as to rule out some kind of special arrangement, but the dude who was in there finishing work just shook his head as if I were a would-be customer who couldn't read signs. No surprise he wouldn't even open the window for a quick clarifying talk.
On both occasions, my driver app gave me a short list of options for the order cancellation reason. None of them applied so I had to choose a lie. There wasn't an option of "other" and there was no evident way to submit a report.
Please don't ever stop doing you. Absolutely the best.
A lot of complaints here about only 1 being government. I always think back to how John Stossel started to see the light by being a consumer reporter.
Its not like the right mindset is once someone joins the government they start acting silly or authoritarian. The point is PEOPLE. Human indivduals are first and foremost the actors in society and by highlighting these failures then we dont become an Us vs Them thing but rather are objectively looking at decisions and consequences and noticing where a government, or even our own endeavors, are grasping beyond what we should due to limitations of being a human being.
True. There is also a good argument that media is, in part, a fourth branch of government. Like if you go back to around 1790 and look at the conversations about the role of free speech and free press with regard to government.
Tobacco being used as official currency in the south. The economic law "bad money pushes out good money" where everyone started using unusable tobacco to pay off taxes and debts. Then everyone making tobacco causing super inflation, then causing arson to destroy tobacco to create deflation.
You forgot the part where googles AI was creating false historical and racist images
That's where I thought it was going
I'd like to see that too.
That was intended though
Did the pizza guy tip the DoorDash drivers that were picking up his pizzas and dropping them off in the same spot? What's a proper tip amount for moving a pizza three feet?
Babe wake up! They dropped a new one
yeah that wasnt the only thing messed up with the google AI
The inaccurate and racist AI image generator, yeah, that's why nobody likes AI
Did we do the California fast food $20 minimum wage law forcing companies to cut jobs, hours yet?
Too soon, we're still feeling the early effects of it.
That wasn't unintended.
These videos and Remy are why I subscribe to this channel
My welcome occasional enjoyment of John Phillip Sousa music. Thanks!
I love that the news reporter from France is a French press that’s comedy
*How did I miss that?* Thank you for noting it good monsieur/mademoiselle!
I needed this. Thank you for making us laugh in these dark times.
Now it's the most well known secret military base in the world 😂
Gota love all the pedometer apps that were giving away the Chinese bases.
there is area 51
Kelvedon hatch “”secret”” nuclear bunker
Keep em coming @ReasonTV!
Chicken tax tariffs leading to bizarre modifications of subaru brat to dodge the 25 % imposed on light trucks
And in 1986, Subaru dropped the rear seats, and insurance companies (like Allstate) refused to insure them in 1985 because of the back seats, and in 1986 because they didn't have a track record and weren't sure exactly how to rate the insurance on them.
My favorite thing about the google one is someone searched “I’m feeling depressed” and in the results on of the things said was “some people suggest jumping off the golden gate bridge can end your depression.”
Whoa, a new video!!?! Moar please. The last 4 years has produced SO MUCH potential content.
Add rent control to the list.
have they done that one? If they havent done that explicitly, they have mentioned it on reason before
LOL! Reason is on fire right now.
Reason is libertarian. When are they going to make videos about the libertarian presidential candidate
@@davidanalyst671 I've seen a couple already.
ITS BACKJJJJJJJKKKKKKKK
Google deciding to mine Reddit of all things to train AI was a questionable move.
Need a lot more of these. Best thing on UA-cam.
You should do a part 2 for Google ai. Their main advertised revenue stream is, if i recall, websites, which are now getting bypassed in favor of the ai they made to replace them. Uh-oruborous.
Someday we won't even have websites. We'll just tell things to an AI and it will tell them to another AI and someone else will find out about them from that AI.
A real "Pizza Work" 😆
AI Overview:
Here are some steps for heaving to in a sailboat without a jib:
Trim the jib: Trim the jib aback, or to the wrong side.
And **OF COURSE** I just clicked on the link to the page about the French radio station they wanted removed. Just because. 😂😂😂😂😂
Indonesian here. The Jakarta government passed a law that require people driving car to bring at least 3 people so they can have high occupancy. This law is created to bypass the gridlock. However, people realize there are business opportunity for people who drive a car alone. They can rent a car jockey so you can bypass the rules
New conspiracy theory: doordash had to recoup it's losses, so they're the ones who released the coof.
Russia once tried to make Anti Tank dogs to blow up enemy tanks. The problem? All the dogs were trained on Russian tanks, and as such only Russian tanks were exploded.
My favorite example of googles frankly idiotic AI is that, according to it, Star Wars has gay characters such as, and I am not making these names up, this is what it said, “Slurpi Faggi and his boyfriend Dr. Butto”
It almost makes me wish they had bought the data they trained that thing on from 4chan instead of Reddit
The Sydney Island Deer Cull is looking like a candidate for this series
never heard of that one.
what happened?
I believe that is the government of Canada paying an obscene amount of money to have hunters take down deer on Vancouver Island from helicopters (instead of giving the local hunters full permission to cull without restriction)
It is a guarantee that I will click on these videos. Why isn't this a weekly series?
Clearly because there aren't many mistakes being made in the world.
The nice thing about doordash was they suffered consequences from their actions.
Unlike a government
I'm so glad you made a new one.
These are some of my favorite posts.
More, I want/need MORE!
If I remember correctly, Texes limits the size of the food items you can buy on food stamps. Which means the smaller size items are priced the same as larger items because the supermarkets know they have a captive audience.
So there's this 1964 Civil Rights Act...
How about the time the US tried making a fighter plane for the Navy and Airforce to save money instead of having two separate aircraft programs. This led to the creation of the F-35, a fighter jet that ran over budget many times.
Stuck on an island tending a lighthouse alone... why not bring a cat along for companionship?
His name was Mister Tiddles.......
and the name of the Island was Stephens Island... ever heard of the Wren????
The only ever recorded case of the entire end of a species by one single individual.
Incredible that not only did France fail to keep that installation a secret....but that trying to led wikipedia to including the grid coordinates to it's exact location. It's 45.6531°N 3.8084°E FYI.
I hope this becomes a daily segment
This series is you best work, Reason. Great stuff.
i swear to god "sounds like a great idea! with the best of intentions! what could possibly go wrong?!"
basically the catchphrase of this series
I don't think there were any good intentions in that last one
Maybe develop a good product rather than being upset that your current product is bad.
This is my favorite series. They are all awesome.
Hey, I’ve missed you guys! I love these videos. They are so hilarious.
Thanks for posting. I've been waiting for anther episode of this stuff.
This series and Remy are why I am subscribed.
You can use gasoline in cooking. I have several stoves that can safely use it.
Yeah, I think you know that's not what they're talkin' about.
Loving these...my new guilty pleasure 🤣
Bad intentions. Expected results.
STOP BEING NAIVE
I love this series
Social Security
Honestly, they could throw a dart at the New Deal and hit subject matter for this series.
@@1krani I remain convinced that the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression.
I love these so much. Keep em coming!
When US school systems were required to desegregate, many areas with two school systems (one white and one black) closed the black-only schools. 40000 black teachers lost their jobs
"Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions, what could possibly go wrong!" never gets old, cracks me up every time"
In the past, you've actually admitted when some of the listed items did NOT have the best of intentions. Doordash DEFINITELY did not have good intentions.
I like the Google AI one lol.
It has been hilariously wrong on several things I’ve searched.
Maybe it’s a good thing that we can all learn right off not to trust it.
This may be my favorite series on UA-cam.
Thank you for the link in the description. :D
Babe, babe! Get in here! Another Unintended Consequences just dropped!!!
These are always great. And this one didn’t miss.
The AI search engine results should be no surprise to anyone that knows anything about computers; there's a classic phrase in computer programming: GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). Any program, AI or otherwise, can only produce results as good as its base data. AI can see patterns, but it can't think. An AI scouring the internet for data has no way to judge if the data is true and accurate, a joke, a delusion, or a deliberate attempt at misinformation. Heck, many humans aren't good at that, so how do you expect an AI to pull it off?
Exactly. AI is getting more stupid, the more data it consumes. Cannot detect sarcasm or humour, so we're now getting GIGO on a regular basis.
So, a blacksmith is someone who works with metal and creates things... A fucksmith is someone who...?
works with fucks and creates things.. oh.. ohh, I think I'm a fucksmith. I work with fucks and create things.
Works in the bed and... creates things?
…really hates someone called Smith?
Eats glue, that ones for sure
Obama HIMSELF said he was muslim in a school application
Remember when the reddit CEO called users of his site “daily active shitheads”
I like this episode because it shows that it's not just that there are dumbasses in government they are all around us. And if we are honest with ourselves we from time to time are also the dumbasses.
Dang, I was hoping for more funny things governments did, not google.
Did you click the link in the description? 😅
Yes. Twice, and almost went to the French page.
These are the best videos on the internet. I rolled something special to enjoy this 🎉
I really love the Door Dash one. Hey lets add businesses without telling them and even sell their products at discounts! I really really really want to know what dolts came up with that brilliant. Hopefully that are one of the homeless wandering the streets in CA now lol.
Outstanding!!! Been waiting for a new episode.
Doordash was literally saved by COVID 💀
If DoorDash, Instacart, Uber Eats all went out of business, the world would be a better place.
*YEAH! ANOTHER GREAT MOMENTS! BEST DAY EVER!!!* Thank you so much for these.
"In a separate pan, saute garlic and onion in gasoline until fragrant."
I'll bet it was.
Oh, and FYT.
Rocks are minerals so it's got to be packed with nutrition as well
Future idea: California’s DMV is moving towards self-service grocery store reduce wait times. Newsom’s office said it will reduce up to 200,000 office visits per month. The problem? Their machines are incredibly finicky and unreliable. Californians are stuck in a bureaucratic conundrum: the field offices refuse to process services and say you must go to a kiosk. And the kiosks don’t work… saying you must visit a field office.
this video was a deviation from your usual type of content
and it was a great video! unlike your usual type of content
Someone should sue to get the Streisand Effect article removed, so that everyone finally hears about it...
Haven’t seen one of these in a while! Love these!
This is pretty much the Democratic party in a nutshell. Let's give money to widows and orphans! Result: millions of unmarried women having children out of wedlock. Let's give money to the elderly who are unable to work! Result: millions of retirees sucking off of Social Security while still able to work. Let's get rid of quotas for immigration! Result 50 million Hispanics in 50 years, now more likely 60 million.
The "Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions! What could possibly go wrong?" has the same level of power as vsauce's "or is it?"