Or, and hear me out: I can drive off, flip them the bird, and go down to one of the other 15 fast food places within a 5 minute drive, that doesn't use a speech recognition AI to take my order.

Some companies make AI interviews, prompt breaking it to pass the interview xD

Are you rhyming on purpose? Let me just edit that last line a bit to make it work even better:

They have the best lettuce and cheese,

and their breakfast beats McD’s.

The Hash browns are actually hash browns

instead of the thin $2.50 ones sold at the clown's.

That's not true. It's developers incapable of using AI responsibly. If my manager told me to use AI, I would be sure to inform them of the limitations professionally.

One clip on Instagram, which has been viewed over 21.5 million times, shows a man ordering "a large Mountain Dew" and the AI voice continually replying "and what will you drink with that?".

"Dude, Where's my car" turning into prophecy wasn't in my bingo card:

But are the AI issues cheaper than the corporate infrastructure around hiring and paying employees and losing the occasional customer? If AI is more profitable, they don’t care. The only thing that’s mattered for decades now is what the bottom line says, no matter the cost.

ICE vs. Clanckers, now that's a match I wasn't expecting

I love almost any place where the ordering process is DIY.

Both are true.

Sure I'll agree it's both.

Nobody is developing current LLMs. They're just feeding it garbage from previous versions.

I was not, and yours is excellent

I tried that with an LLM and it told me I was clever and smart.
there's that regurgitation and feedback loop.

I guess if that makes you happy. Seems like wasted time as opposed to just having the worker take it over and do the order, at which point speech recongition software isn't being used.

Eat their refried beans once and that is all you need, ever. Then the whole AI thing is moot. - just my gut feeling

Is it safe to assume the people that made this AI thing for TB got fired and hence AI kind of did make somebody lose their job?

A positive surprise is good though

I've tried this repeatedly. I've answered "No" to their upsale. I've sat there in silence, waiting for it to time out. I've asked for a human. Every time the AI takes my order, it adds nacho fries that I didn't order and specifically rejected.

The problem isn't that I need a human to fix it. The problem is that the AI is specifically programmed to ignore a rejected upsale. Their AI is smart enough to recognize the rest of my complicated order, but it can't understand "No"? Horseshit. They are using this fraudulent programming to increase their upsale metrics, expecting us to docilely accept the sale rather than raise a fuss.

Drive-offs are another of the metrics they look at. Since I've communicated with nobody but the AI, they have nobody but the AI to blame for the drive-off. They don't get to blame a human for failing to remediate the problem.

I would just be happy I can order in my native tongue. That could be neat.

Drive through might be a bit more difficult for touch screens. It'd be like trying to reach your parking ticket but for how many clicks it takes to make the order.

Phone app might be easier but not sure it really replaces what drive throughs are for.