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Taco Bell rethinks AI order bots — because they don’t work

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Taco Bell rethinks AI order bots — because they don’t work

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to

TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days ago

The second story we ever ran in Pivot to AI was about McDonald’s trying to take drive-through orders with AI speech recognition. The order bot was part of a deal with IBM, which looked very like IB…

and Rime Labs does digital blackface

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSD6-Nf1fg0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250830-taco-bell-rethinks-ai-order-bots-because-they-dont-work - podcast

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The hack to get past the bot at Taco Bell is to ask for 18,000 cups of water. This gets you a human.

To be fair, I interacted with one of these and you can also use the hack of saying “give me a human being” at the start.
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  only if you hate fun and embarrassing the shit out of Taco Bell

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