• farting_gorilla@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It even can be a feature if AI isn’t as good as the people they are replacing. For example, in the case of call centers/help lines, it might be more desirable to have a shitty system to discourage callers yet have plausible deniability…

      I find I’m referencing Cory Doctorow a lot lately…

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        6 months ago

        I was in a meeting at a credit card company about 2 decades ago where a VP said exactly that - without the AI part.