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Health Care AI, Intended To Save Money, Turns Out To Require a Lot of Expensive Humans. (kffhealthnews.org)
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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

You know it's funny, this keeps happening with every single fucking AI thing they produce. It always still needs humans fixing its mistakes because its just not reliable enough.

I think it's doing a lot less reducing headcount and a lot more making people specialize in what I would call "bullshit," to be able to fix mistakes made by an AI quickly and efficiently.

Maybe, just maybe, if they have to pay people to fix the AIs work that they can cut out the middleman and just pay the people to do the fucking job to begin with. No, what am I saying, that's just ridiculous! /s

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There will be fake AI services actually performed by people. Mechanical Turk 2025 incoming

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 hours ago

There already are!

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/amazons-ai-based-just-walk-out-checkout-tech-was-powered-by-1000-indian-workers-manually-11712196827721.html

That's what Amazon's entire walkout checkout tech was. It was claimed it was all "automated" and turns out in this case, when people say "AI" it doesn't mean "artificial intelligence" it means "actually Indians."

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 hours ago

Ah, but you see the AI let us reduce headcount for full time employees. Reducing the budget for full time salaries.

Now we just spend twice as much on contractors and consultants, but that’s a different budget, so it’s not my problem.