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Lyft driver caught blatantly using Gemini AI (with watermark) to fake damage to his car and charge riders extra for cleaning fees (www.dexerto.com)
submitted 8 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca 37 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Wtf, nobody is making him work at Lyft. “I am faking damage to my vehicle and charging riders false fees to supplement my income because my wage is crap.” is not acceptable. What a terrible take.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago

It's not an excuse just a statement of reality. A lot of crime is tied to economic stress

[–] db2@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The other guy didn't say it was OK though, you're adding that part and then getting mad about it.

[–] anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca 14 points 7 hours ago

Fair point, the person I replied to didn’t explicitly say it was okay or that they said they felt it was ok. I took their comment as a kind of indirect victim blaming, similar to how you hear people say things like “I wonder if that would have happened if she was wearing something more conservative” — that’s a bad assumption on my part, and I appreciate your calling me out on it.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Um, okay? It isn't unreasonable for @anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca or anyone else to perceive it that way. "Maybe X wouldn't Y if Z wouldn't A" is always a classic logic chain putting the most blame on Z.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

It could be a commentary on the type of people who gravitate towards jobs that don't provide enough compensation, Lyft certainly doesn't have that market cornered.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 4 points 7 hours ago

Sure feels like its not nobody when its "everybody" in the guise of societal murder if you don't work.