When Algorithms Go Wild: AI Bands, Job Rejections, and Amazon Package Nightmares

is back , at least for now . We'll see how long it goes . I understand it's going to take a while to build back up , but we're going to do it this Sunday at 2 o'clock Central . So , yeah , I hope you stay . Stay , I hope you can tune in . We're going to play around with some times .

If you have a different day , that would work better for you , let me know I'm not opposed to doing it during the week , in the evening , sometime , just not real late . All right , let's see's . What do I want to start with first ?

Let's start with oh , the hundreds of huge Amazon packages arriving at California woman's doorstep for over a year after Chinese seller lists her

home as the return address . Again , this is from the New York Post . A California woman has received hundreds of huge Amazon packages she didn't order after a cheap Chinese seller listed her San Jose home as its return address . This is what there's . This is what this Chinese company , fake company , is doing .

They are selling , like a seat cover , car faux leather seat covers , and then they don't fit the seats that they say they do in the particular model of cars . So when people get them they return them , and the this Chinese seller listed this lady's home as the return address .

The woman identified only as has been receiving the parcels for over a year now , and they've been arriving at such speed she's had no choice but to stack them up in her driveway to maintain some semblance of order . Why are not people rushing to her yard to steal these things ? That's what I don't understand .

The boxes are piled chest high in her yard and have become so numerous she can no longer park her car there . It's just been another form of hell . She told a news report , the culprit is a chinese-based amazon seller called I'm going to butcher this name louis and didion . I don't know , I can't pronounce it .

We , we'll call it Lewis and Didion , all right , whatever . Which pedals faux leather car seat covers that apparently fit a few of the models they're designed for . So of course the customers return them , and this is the address they return them to . But the unwanted seat covers haven't been going back to wherever .

Okay , yeah , it started just with one package that Kay thought was a wrong delivery . But more boxes kept arriving over the following weeks . Weeks turned into months , which became over a year , and more and more parcels showing up at her steps , until Kay Stoop was buried in boxes .

She says she has contacted Amazon several times and they keep telling her oh , it'll be fixed , don't worry , we're on it , we're going to take care of it . Blah , blah , blah . And Amazon offered her next to no help for months , with at least six different complaint tickets being filed to no avail .

And yes , she has refused the packages as much as she can , but when she's not there , I guess they deliver them . The business once tried to offer her a hundred dollar gift card for her trouble , but she also claims they told her it was her job to get rid of the packages what ? And suggested she donate them or ship them back to the sender .

But they're sending them back to her . That's the thing . Uh , why is it my responsibility to get rid of this when your seller is not following your rules anyway ? Uh , so amazon denied that it ever told k to handle the problem herself , but on wednesday finally arrived to a out the packages and assured her again that she'd never see another seat cover .

We would like to thank ABC7 for bringing this to our attention . We've apologized to the customer and are working directly with her to pick up any packages , while taking steps to permanently resolve the issue . We'll see . We need to follow up . We need to follow up . All right , the next two stories are about AI . This one is just so fascinating to me .

Well , I'm going to say the fascinating one for last . Let's talk about this other one . First , lazy job rejection , torn to pieces . As embarrassing AI email goes viral Again from the New York Post

. This is not so bad I mean it is bad but it claims that she received a rejection email from a place of employment that she applied to go to work for . And you know they send out those generic email forms when you get rejected or they're not interested in you or whatever .

And normally in the olden days , somebody like me , as an administrative assistant , at one time or another would write these form emails . But I you know a person was doing it . You would just copy and paste it into the email form , but you would also personalize it and put the person's name in it , you know .

So an actual person was eyeballing it when they , when it went out . This is all before AI , when I was an administrative assistant a long time ago . I haven't been an administrative assistant in forever , so , but now AI has taken over . Here we go , whether you love it or not .

Whether you love it or not , ai is officially here , and everyone is trying to figure out how to integrate it into their lives . It's never fun getting rejected from a job , but for one Reddit user , a possible employer has rubbed salt in the wound with a less than adequate email . So part of the email was here's . I'll read it to you . I'll read it to you .

This is the email that she received . Write a warm but generic rejection email that sounds polite , yet firm . Do not mention specific reasons for rejection . Make that candidate feel like they were strongly considered , even if they weren't . Remember to use candidate name and company name variables . Then it was followed by a seemingly normal end .

We appreciate your interest in the role and wish you all the best in the future . I don't understand how this happened . Um , that's just pure laziness , is what somebody said . Oh well , whatever , what , whatever ? It's not that big of a deal . Get over it , all right . So the next one , though .

Uh , this is fascinating to me , and I thought of Furion Energy when I saw this Rock band , with more than 1 million Spotify listeners , reveals its entirely AI-generated down to

the musicians themselves . Wow , a fresh new rock band that quickly shot to Spotify's top ranks announced that it's actually wholly generated by artificial intelligence just one month after its celebrated debut album earned it 1 million listeners holy crap .

The 60s inspired rock and roll band , the velvet sundown , revealed on saturday that nothing but it is real , nothing about it , is real , and fans of the up-and-coming artist noticed there were virtually no traces of any people associated with it online . Its debut album , floating on echoes , was released on june 5th to mass appeal online . How does this happen ?

How do you ? How does this happen ? Does somebody is somebody ? Is a person sitting behind a keyboard creating this album via AI ? And then how do you submit it to Spotify ? How does that work ? I'm not sure how that works . The most popular Okay , we don't care about the most popular song . Well , maybe you do . You can look it up .

The most popular song in the album , pro-peace folk rock song , dust on the Wind , clenched the number one spot for Spotify's Daily Viral 50 . All the while , the 1 million monthly listeners who started following the Velvet Sundown had no idea they were just listening to a mass of artificial intelligence made by fake musicians . This is fascinating to me .

What do you guys think about this ? This is fascinating and terrifying . Now I know it's only music , uh , but still . Oh , look where it . I mean . What could it lead to ? The photos of the band shared online and featured on the album's cover were unnaturally smooth and matte , and the guitarist's hand was wonky and with fused fingers gripping his instrument .

Oh no , I know that's going to be a quote from giblets . Oh , I'm so sorry , that was not my quote . I read it directly from the article . Let me read it again for you .

The photos of the band shared online and featured on the album's cover were unnaturally smooth and matte , and the guitarist's hand was wonky , with fused fingers gripping his instrument Like a 13-year-old boy A classic hallmark of AI-generated images . Look , if you're going to try to fake somebody out , at least get your images right . I mean , come on .

Oh , the band's . Okay , I'm not going to read anymore . You can finish reading that . That's crazy , isn't that crazy ? All right , question of the day . Okay , here's a question for you . What is something about you that people get wrong ? What is something about you that people get wrong ? What is something okay ? Did I am I asking that right ?

What name something about you that people get wrong about you ? Something okay

, did I'm not asking that right ? What name something about you that people get wrong about you ? I think you know what I'm trying to say . People think I'm stuck up , uh , or I guess I have a really good resting bee face , if you know what that is the thing is . People , when I was growing , people always told me to smile , smile , smile , smile .

Even as a young adult in the Navy smile , smile , smile . And I'm walking around thinking I am smiling , I feel like I am smiling . But then one time I walked by the mirror and caught myself in the reflection I was like , oh my gosh , I see what they mean . My resting bee face is on point .

No wonder people you know think I'm mad or stuck up or bitchy all the time because my face but the thing is the hell of it is is that I feel like I am smiling on the inside . That's the weirdest thing .

So the last year or so I have really been working on trying to turn up my corners of my mouth , just when I'm walking around just trying to nonchalantly smile all the time . It's funny , it's hilarious . Okay , I gotta go . Thanks for listening y'all . Love you Bye .