Y Combinator "Customer Surveillance" Startup Says "Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move"
futurism.com
The startup Outlit is deploying agents that constantly surveil B2B companies' customers and create detailed intelligence dossiers.
  • redballooon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    14 minutes ago

    That’s what the data centers are for. Makes sense. A lot of people times a lot of companies equals insane compute power.

    But then they’ll notice it costs a shitton of money, and downgrade the LLM to Luna, and then not actually learn anything that Amazon, Meta and Google don’t already know anyway.

    And it still costs a shitkilo or money.

  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    “The whole surveillance component came up because that’s the way we feel companies can serve their customers,” Earle told Futurism in an interview.

    I hate it here. Is that it? Is that really what you think, Earle? Fucking moron. We need to start punishing these CEOs, harass them anytime they are out, make being a little freak piece of shit like this miserable.

  • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    6 hours ago

    Probably more business suit guys talking about stuff they don’t understand. They probably imagine “AI” as some unlimited resource that they can command any amount of tasks from, but the scale they are fantasizing about doesn’t seem realistic to me

    • voidsignal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 hours ago

      Yeah it’s Y Combinator. It’s probably from a young and dynamic entrepreneur who has already revolutionized the javascript landscape by introducing and accelerating a completely new and revolutionary package to deal with emojis at scale (and Knuckles). They definitely know about compitars.

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    These asshats can’t make a good product anymore even with all the data in the world.

    Look at Netflix trying to game art by including superficialities in their productions to appeal to niche audiences.

  • eicker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    101·
    6 hours ago

    They took »know your customer« and somehow arrived at »assign them a tireless digital stalker.« The founder says there’s no need to inform anyone because it’s legal, which is a fascinating way to announce that ethics has been laid off and its job outsourced to the legal department. Peak Silicon Valley: replacing customer relationships with the CIA, the Customer Intelligence Agents.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI

    It’s the latest keyword in the latest corporate drivel!!! BUZZ!!!

    :sigh:

    Of course companies collect data about their customers and try to use it. This is nothing new.