MC Unexpected Item In Bagging Area

Oh no, if only everybody had predicted this would happen

sorry to slide back into technoskepticism but this is how this always fucking goes

company: we are going to do thing with AI

commentators: but what about subtle problems, like the human touch or making deep ethical decisions? we may simulate conversation, but have we truly simulated empathy?

AI, immediately upon release: i'm gonna drive directly into a firetruck for no reason

commentators: ...we over-estimated the problems we would have.

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EDIT: holy shit it's supposedly hand-written?!!?! I may have misblamed AI for this one but... but wow, this might not even be an accident, this might be something closer to active malice

been seeing more people using the CW field for, uh. food. lately. and that feels familiar and not necessarily in the best way. a suggestion: just tag it #food. people who have issues seeing such talk will muffle the tag, if they know that's an option.

tag muffling is a setting option you can customize as you need to, and is pretty effective at preventing people from seeing things that they'd be disturbed by personally (or just don't want to deal with). all this, without making the assumption that a CW does that everyone might be bothered, and leaving them to disable hiding the CW on their own.

sharing recipes or good take-out finds is a normal thing. some people need to know in advance that they're about to encounter such a thing. both of these are fine, but CW-first is a pattern that existed in some spaces because tagging was either clunky or non-existent. it works way better here!

the same goes for other tags one might consider that aren't obviously "most people would need a warning for this even if they don't expect they do." just make the tags as easy to figure out as possible and folks will be okay.

it feels related to the phenomenon where people will pay more attention to the fear of crime happening than the actual crime statistics saying crime is going down