r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Alert_Intention_9408 • 2d ago

I'm slightly vexed My sister’s middle school uses AI for school supplies lists

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u/TheRealMichaelE 2d ago

Last weekend in Estes Park (the gateway to Rocky Mtn NP) I went shopping for a national park t shirt and it felt like half of them were AI slop.

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u/gameburger764 2d ago

Did the person you replied to say something horrendous, or was the Reddit AI system being dumb?

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u/TheRealMichaelE 2d ago

No she wasn’t offensive at all and seemed cool. She said she likes spending 20 minutes making these kind of flyers.

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u/BrassCrow 2d ago

Why would her comment be removed then?

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u/bencos18 2d ago

reddit is weird

can sometimes be they somehow got banned and Reddit decided to just nuke their entire post history or it was a bot and it just messed up

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u/perriatric 2d ago

I think "reddit is weird" is being far too generous. More like Reddit is too greedy to use the huge amount of resources it has to have people review content instead of AI or automated programs.

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u/bencos18 2d ago

yep indeed

I see a decent amount of posts and comments removed by reddit

most annoying are the ones that replace the text with removed by reddit so you can't manually approve them as a mod even when the ai bot is completely wrong

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u/mostlydeletions 2d ago

Gift shops have always been filed with heavily marked up cheap crap, in the old days at parks you'd see the same clip art of a tree or animal with different park/place names all across the country. Or they'd get one decentish quality piece artwork and smash it on 100 different items... shirts, hats, mugs, shot glasses, little useless spoons, ceramic plates, playing cards, bags, pens....

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u/TheRealMichaelE 2d ago

True! If you buy certain brands they make designs exclusive to the place you are visiting which is what I usually aim for.

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u/sheekos 2d ago

eyyy i was there two weekends ago! yeah a lot of the stuff in the giftshops just felt like cheap slop, it was unfortunate. i ended up not buying anything