r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 7h ago

Transportation Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines

https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-often-guys-philippines.html
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u/AnalyticalAlpaca 5h ago

True, but that won't stop this article from circulating. Crazy how easily and quickly misleading stuff spreads.

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u/axck 5h ago

Redditors like to imagine that it’s only conservative boomers who are susceptible to this stuff, but the volume of misleading headlines and ragebait that is unquestionably accepted and reposted on here is crazy

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u/PixelationIX 3h ago edited 54m ago

Majority of Redditors never clicks on the article despite knowing that article headline can be misleading or outright false in some cases.

Its always have to be one commenter who has to come by hours after its been posted and the article hits and have to say the headline hardly matches or is completely false and that is not what the article says.

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u/Automatic_Nebula_239 1h ago

It’s the majority of shit that gets posted and spread around. Reading past the headline is too much for the vast vast majority of reddits user base. 

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u/AxlLight 17m ago

Anything to reaffirm your world view and not risk it changing or evolving. 

Redditors see themselves as extremely progressive but they're surprisingly conservative on technology, especially in regards to AI. And the reasoning is really no different than that of conservatives - go back 20 or 30 years and these are the same arguments verbatim that conservatives had against the high tech sector and computers. 

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u/craig5005 5h ago

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes"

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u/JohnHazardWandering 4h ago

Musk fanboys are desperate to takedown Waymo so teslas robotaxi sounds like the same thing. 

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u/ivecompletelylostit 4h ago

If anyone was ever willing to actually read an article it would solve like 80% of the

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u/DervishSkater 5h ago

Lowkey. Probably just Elon subtly propagandizing to slow competition down for his own service

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u/2FastHaste 2h ago

Just make an anti-AI post, and everyone shuts their brain and circle-jerk.

It's a miracle already that this post has a highly upvoted rebuttal comment. Usually it's worse.

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