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Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores (archive.ph)
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[โ€“] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That capex number in the article is a big part of it. $200 billion spent to generate $1-2 billion a month in revenue is wasteful, and people at the top are feeling the pressure to justify that expense.

[โ€“] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

The people who need the line to keep going up rely on other smaller lines to always keep going up.