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

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

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago*

    You are so right! Installing toilet paper can be a rather challenging process. In your situation, you can try inserting a second toilet paper roll to loosen the first one. Let me know if I can be of further assistance!

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

    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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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

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

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

    I’m going to use this when I see someone’s AI expanded bullshit that could have been a few bullet points

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    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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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I really need to try that toilet paper now, damn. It sounds truly epic.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    776.5 sq ft

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

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