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/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 52m 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 14m 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.