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Bot Gaffe

Meta's AI Keeps Flagging a Soda Company's Bottles as Alcohol

Algorithms Gaffe level: Blunder

Yacht Club Soda has spent two months stuck in a loop: Meta's automated system keeps flagging photos of its glass soda bottles as alcohol. Every manual review clears them, then the system flags them again. The owner says he spent eight exhausting weeks going in circles with Meta's AI chatbot, which he says either can't or won't escalate the case to a human.

Source: The Local Insider News

Bot Kudos

Blind Veterans Near Chicago Received Free AI Glasses

Accessibility Kudos level: Nice

About 50 veterans with vision loss received free Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses with hands-on training in Rosemont ahead of Veterans Day. Meta and the Blinded Veterans Association plan to provide the glasses to 130,000 veterans nationwide, helping with reading, navigation, calls, and email.

Source: FOX 32 Chicago

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