Automated customer support that forces you to upload a photo of your order when you contact them about missing food has got to be among the most asinine and infuriating things that the first world has ever created.
"We require this in order to assist you" but why?? Wtf is the photo gonna show you? Worst case scenario if I wanted to lie to you I'd just not include the stuff I was trying to claim I didn't receive, right??
Rant over.
So, for a mere $20,000, you can finally get that home robot! The catch? It might still need a remote human operator to do its chores. Sounds like a very expensive remote control to me. Are we paying for robots to be better at asking for help than actually helping?
Klarna: “We replaced humans with AI!” Also Klarna: “Please come back.”
#Klarna #AI #AutomationFail #TechJobs #HumanLabor #InternetIsCrack
Spot the pattern?:
10 Modern ‘Mechanical Turks’: When Automation Is Just Humans in Disguise
https://gizmodo.com/modern-mechanical-turks-automation-humans-in-disguise-1851382957
Due to your involvement in the field and the research you published in your paper, "Improving the Privacy of Tor Onion Services," IntechOpen invites you to contribute a chapter to "Root Vegetables - Nutrition, Breeding, Soil Basics, and Pathology Insights," an Open Access book edited by <someone who seems like a real person> from <a technical university in Spain>.
As some of you know, my spouse is an academic who studies privacy enhancing technologies. He studies a bunch of types of systems, but he's done a lot of work on Tor.
Yesterday, he got an email from an Elsevier journal soliciting a paper review. It was a geology journal that referenced his work on tors. Hilarity ensued. He replied, but has not yet heard back from them.
Today was even better:
"No payment required."
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