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Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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The story is ultimately the same as it ever was: Businesses are looking for ways to make employees work harder while paying them less. But now an editor can be told to fix an AI-mangled manuscript and paid less... Because the business class has fallen under a collective delusion that the AI is actually good at its job.
They don't care if it's good at the job, just cheaper and they can get away with claiming its good enough