Surprise, Meta's latest AI gimmick is just underpaid humans
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rendaw7 days ago
That article seems to be a 2nd hand take on this: https://www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-agent-calls-that-...
Anyways, aside from being make believe, there's another good point that this is disclosing private information to humans, probably not well paid ones at that?
davidee7 days ago
Meat proxies; proxying the transfer of wealth for the benefit of the few at great cost to the many.
randycupertino7 days ago
It was reminding me of the AI cleaning robots who turns out were just third-world workers watching on cameras directing the robot what to clean. After it came out that humans were driving the robots remotely they changed their branding to "AI-assisted remote human teleoperation."
Also Waymo does this and some robot delivery company.
astrange7 days ago
Waymo does not do this. You can't remote drive a car.
kmoser7 days ago
They just reinvented Fiverr.
pseudocoup7 days ago
Remember Facebook’s chatbot, ‘M’[0]?
0cf8612b2e1e7 days ago
Some Meta employees have been praising Muse on X, where AI boosters and AI agents alike can share ever more hype about the technology that’s boiling the Earth. Internally, though, Meta employees realize that a human-driven AI making calls for users has potential for “so much negative PR,” warning co-workers on the board that “It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch. Another post, with a fairly lucid handle of the situation, wrote, “Please PLEASE do not release this as-is and at least make this a user preference if we absolutely must launch this. Please.”
Just beautiful.Read the full thread on Hacker News →
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