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[–] 119 points 2 months ago

If doordash wants to preemptively deliver me a burrito, that's fine. Just don't expect me to be paying for it.

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  • [–] 80 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Decide you want it

    This implies there is ever a time I do not want a burrito.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Then how come every one of my deliveries is cold and an hour later than the app claims it will be?

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago

    Yeah. They need to slow their roll. They can’t even execute on “give me exactly what I ask for when I ask for it” so how the fuck do they think they’re on some Minority Report shit for Chipotle? And they sure as fuck are nowhere near doing that without exploiting and ripping off everyone else involved.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Because you didn't pick it up you lazy bastard.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Except last time I tried to use Doordash and it took them two hours to finally assign a dasher to get my burrito only for them to message me that it was a food truck and that it was closed... It is a real brick and mortar restaurant that I've been to multiple times before. The only thing Doordash is good at is dynamic pricing and increasing the price on the menu based on what they think you will pay.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I bought an ebike online recently and it was 4 days late being delivered. Every day FedEx said it was on the truck for delivery, then every day, the delivery window shifted, before finally getting pushed back to the next day (after their call center was closed).
    I finally went outside while the truck was stopped at my house and the driver was rummaging around looking for my package. He poked his head out after I caught his attention and after am explanation, he asked what the package was. When I told him it was an ebike, he gave me a look of understanding and told me they probably couldn’t fit it on his over packed truck, so they left it at the depot but didn’t mark it in the app.
    I wound up just going to the depot and getting it myself.

    I say that to commiserate - it seems companies are squeezing their workers to (and beyond) the limit where they can successfully carry out their work.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Yep. The postman delivers parcels to a good hidden spot outside my mum's door because he's a good man, definitely not for the pay. He told me once he gets two cents per parcel delivered, on top of his base pay, which is MINIMUM WAGE.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Just like any service that was born out of a need and was recognised as a great source of money, its sole purpose now is to extract capital and swiftly put it in the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'm going to be honest this sounds like it's making fun of all the AI bros insisting we need to "pause" to consider the dangers of "superintelligent" AI while ignoring the actual problems.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    Like the problem that the general public don't believe them, and assume the performance of public accessible chat bots is representative of closed door capabilities, and dismiss the true danger in favor of instead hyperfixating on the same concerning attributes shared by every single piece of Internet-based technology, including Lemmy.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I'm out dashing rn and I have no idea what this person is saying

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They're likely saying that data collection/analysis on customer's eating habits is getting to the point that they can almost predict when you'll be hungry, and the next step is to deliver food to you before you even order it.

    If you order a burrito at 11:30 every day, their goal is to have a burrito delivered to your door at 11:30 every day, without you even ordering it.

    Which honestly, is kind of terrifying. I don't want a company knowing my habits so well that they predict what I want and then order it without my consent.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    About 15 years ago when I was at my most depressed and least healthy, I used to get 3 pizzas every weekend (Saturday dinner, Sunday lunch, Sunday dinner) because that worked out as the cheapest deal. One week I only got a single pizza and the delivery guy commented on it, just something small like "Oh only one today?" I never got Dominos again.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago

    Damn, like Minority Report for food. PreDine Division.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Back in the day you got pizza in 30 minutes or less. Now it’s over an hour, it’s cold, and not quite what you ordered.

    Now get offa mah lawn!

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  • [+] -17 points 2 months ago* (9 children)

    Translation, when I was young my parents could afford a home in a nice area with lots of local cuisine. My generation isnt so lucky.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    pizza is made and delivered everywhere, wdym

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Theres plenty of places nowhere near shops and restaurants, wdym?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    that's what the delivery is for

    unless you live in like an area outside of a city, which in my case would be the nicest part of town

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Poor little victim

    Edit: your username is funny

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I was translating.

    You can tell by the first word.

    Im not particularly hard up just saying a lot of people are.

    Unsure why that upset you.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If you deliver a burrito to my door and then tell me to pay for it, and I never asked, there's going to be a fight.

    I will drive my car through the front wall of DoorDash before I'll pay them for a burrito I did not order.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The right approach is "whaaat?! You made me a gift?? Thank you!" takes the burrito and closes the door

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    A lot of people reading this are thinking they are going to charge you for food that you didn't order. That's not it.

    Accurate predictions can be used for tons of things, like advertising. If they predict that you are in the mood for a burrito but don't know it yet, they can push a Youtube ad about doordashing burritos, to get you to order.

    At a large scale it can be used for planning and logistics. Prediction that Bob wants a pizza? Re-route dasher A to be closer to the pizza place so that dasher A can fulfill more orders once Bob makes the order.

    Prediction that Bob hates big tech, would never buy premium doordash, and is only ordering today because he has no other choice? Deprioritize his order, he can get his pizza cold.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6k8OBBuox8&t=53s

    Giant bomb & Jeff Gerstmann covered this already

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    What you have to understand is that these AI fucks are using AI to grade their product. I'm sure Claude gave this person some code that produced results that Claude said meant they could near predict people's orders.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I bet they'll forget my double guacamole again!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Didn't Amazon experiment with preemptive dispatch years ago?

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