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A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs

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nearlyepic · 1789586705 · focus · HN ↗
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1. adriand · 1789587938 · focus · HN ↗
  Ouch. Have a little compassion. It is not easy running a small business, even less so when you've got a baby FFS!
  > "At 4 a.m., I was holding my pump on my lap and replying to this person, 'I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it that way,'" she told me. "I was so into typing this message that I produced so much milk, it was dripping down my legs because I overflowed the pump."
  Also, it's one thing to dislike AI to the point where it "kills the mood" (for you) when you see an AI-generated poster, so you stop visiting that particular coffee shop. It's something else entirely to threaten the business owner.
  1. chungusamongus · 1789588055 · focus · HN ↗
    The thing about the customer always being right is, that becomes a big problem when the customer is an unhinged terminally online weirdo.
    wackget · 1789588341 · focus · HN ↗
    The actual saying is "The customer is always right in matters of taste."
    It is misquoted on a criminally large scale.
    optionalsquid · 1789638900 · focus · HN ↗
    The evidence seems to point to "in matters of taste" being a much later addition: <a href="https://www.snopes.com/articles/468815/customer-is-always-right-origin/" rel="nofollow">https://www.snopes.com/articles/468815/customer-is-always-ri...

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