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Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores

24 points by uhfraid ago | 4 comments

coip |next |previous [-]

Sounds necessary given they must to meet some utilization quota or risk termination.

Kinda like how cobras were bred once there was an incentive to turn in their heads lol

bicepjai |next |previous [-]

Goodharts law at work

burnt-resistor |previous [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

This is what happens when PHBs "measure" "productivity" in terms of arbitrary KPIs.