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Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores (archive.ph)
submitted 2 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 26 minutes ago

Well that’s what happens when you make it part of your performance review.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 4 points 41 minutes ago

Usage score? Retarded executive management.

[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nice example of Goodhart’s law in action.

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

Tokenistic usage of a tokenised metric

[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago

They want to find the best tokenist!

[–] patruelis@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

Shocking!!

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

It's what I'm doing.