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Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores (archive.ph)
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[โ€“] greybeard@feddit.online 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Next steps? The bosses start using the AI tools to summarize the usage of the emoyees to make sure they are using it for the right things. Then employees start subtly prompt injecting their bosses LLM to give them more favorable usage scores. And the sea boils as the arms race to see who can burn more tokens to make investors happy.

[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

Next steps? AI does the bosses job and operates the AI tools.