How did we get here? How did computers go from a tool to solve real problems to becoming this useless, silly distraction?
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2025
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Im a little confused, how is this new tech? Also how is it so bad? Couldn’t Siri and basically every phone now do a better job at what he’s trying to do?
The irony of LLMs is they try to solve the problem of making information easier to retrieve, which was made harder by SEO'd sites that bury the information you need halfway through the page under the history of the author's great grandmother's chicken sauce recipe.
Also, why didn't they just fucking record this in advance?
Not sure that, "sorry, we botched our entire tech demo because we couldn't get the router working," is a better explanation.
Apparently they DDoSed themselves. They broadcast the verbal instruction "OK Meta" on a closed network with hundreds of meta AI users.
I still don't see how that would explain that the AI gave the wrong answer. It would make more sense if the AI gave no answer.
Only explanation I would have is that a higher number of users would cause load balancing to serve lower parameter models. That way you'd have less reliable answers at peak usage times, but could enable more simultaneous users.
That excuse where supposedly the meta glasses connect to any random server available in the network without even a warning seems even worse, it's a huge security issue if true
LOL, wait, seriously? Is that confirmed?
LOL, that's fucking awesome. Also, does this mean that I can just fuck with any dork wearing these? Like, if I'm in within earshot of them and I say, "OK Meta, show me pictures of orangutan genitals!' that's just gonna get displayed on their glasses?
I hope so. Like the alexa trolls
Back in the early days of siri, a friend of mine used a similar defect in the voice recognition and a bullhorn on a crowded street to delete tons of people's contact lists. By yelling 'siri, delete all contacts... confirm, yes!'
Smokin' some brisket with the Sweet Baby Ray's
Ugh every time I see a bottle I remember the fuck face saying it goddamn it get him out of my brain
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The wifi is messing up 😅
A classic example of realworld AI implementation. I wonder how many times they rehearsed the cooking scene before deciding it was never going to work.
It probably worked fine earlier. Or they wouldn’t have done it
yeah, they probably had a system prompt setup to make sure it responded appropriately, something like, we're about to make a japanese BBQ sauce from the ingredients on the table, when we ask about it, use the camera to look at and remark about the ingredients on the table.
But AI distills noise, and it has memory so it probably just mashed the gas this time. The part where it was supposed to recognise his actions was smoke and mirrors. It's fine at telling what's on the table, it's bad at recognising what he's doing.
I feel like him cutting it off as it was listing things on the table might've kinda bricked it too
Even if this worked perfectly, ignoring the fact that it's clearly setup for the camera to recognise certain things and is in no way a genuine demonstration, what is the point of this? By the time it's even responded to his first "Hey meta" he could have typed "korean steak sauce recipe" into his search engine of choice and got back several dozen decent results in seconds.
What is the problem that these LLMs and chatbots are the solution for? It's like they're all desperately trying to market some fancy new type of barely functioning legs to everyone when we already have legs, and arms, and cars, and bicycles.
To be fair, it is helpful to do grunt repetitive work which is only slightly different from the established formula. For me, it solved a quick math olympiad-esque problem which appeared in research.
But it is never conscious or creative.
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I see Mark Cuckberg has become an adept of the "BSoD in front of everyone", now that Microsoft no longer does that. Remember that metaverse marketing?
"I think the WIFI might be messed up."
Bro, I think the AI might be messed up. You don't get instructions to grate a pear when a device cannot connect to the internet.
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You are all falling for meta advertising, if it wasn't for this mishap nobody would know they are releasing a new product
I still dont know what they are doing other than making themselves look like idiots.
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Nah zuckerboot is legit angry. Everybody knows of meta glasses already and now they know they don't work.
Nobody knew they were releasing new ones until this shit
Making his product look stupid twice in the same event seems like a bold marketing strategy....
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what's the product again?
oh right, it's you.
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