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Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
(www.theverge.com)
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Even more horrifying: employees are forced to wear headsets that constantly whisper BS in their ear while surveiling them.
This sounds like the kind of thing that will simultaneously induce paranoid delusions while also kind of validating them. Don't service workers go through enough already?!
I hate living in a dystopian novel.
Good news! We're not living in a dystopian novel, we're living in all the dystopian novels at once!
That sounds like something from a 40k novel.
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