This smells like the dictator phenomenon where the dictator is surrounded by yes-men because everyone fears retaliation.
Somebody had to have known but was too afraid for their job to speak up. I’ve been in this situation where it’s better to just pretend you don’t know about the problem than to raise the flag even if it’s better for the overall organizations.
I’m sure they’d be pleased when the letter they receive back is also written by AI. Just cut out the middle man and have the AIs talk to each other at this point.
Isn’t that essentially what the Zoom CEO was suggesting a few months ago?
The whole point is to make everyone stupid, uneducated and reliant on big tech.
Why learn to drive when Apple and Google will drive you around?
Why learn to write if you can have Microsoft, Google, and Apple write for you?
Why learn to read if Microsoft, Google, and Apple will read for you and tell you what things say?
Why learn to paint, draw, sculpt, sing, or play an instrument if Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft can make art for you based on a suggestion?
Why think for yourself when Facebook, Google, and Apple can tell you what you’re thinking or what to think?
Don’t be alone with your thoughts. Your thoughts are subversive and dangerous. Just relax and don’t make a scene. Go with the flow. Do what you’re told. It’s presumptuous to believe you know better than a finely collated corporate collection of knowledge taken from millenia of those smarter than you, don’t you think?
Relax, everything will be ok. Your AI therapist is here and knows exactly what’s wrong. You worry too much. Everything is under control and is the way it should be.
Smile more, you’re so pretty/handsome when you smile.
I find myself censoring my own commentary in relation to organisations I rely on for the functioning of my online activities.
“We carefully selected a group of outside ‘yes-men’ to test our product on so we don’t have to change anything and investors will love the results we show them but now we don’t understand why real people don’t like it”
I still think about the time when a major tech company reaches out directly to me to get my feedback on their product.
They found me from my LinkedIn, which states that I have over 15 years of experience in Software Development. And they were going to give me $100 for an hour of yammering, and I was eyeing a brand new video game, so I said yes.
To my surprise, the feedback was End User feedback. And for an hour, I answered their questions from my perspective as a technically experienced end user who will run commands and read developer documentation Instead of asking for help from a chat bot.
I’m not the average end user. If they’re using my feedback, they’re going to have a bad time!
I think about that whenever tech companies go, “We tested this with people and everyone loved it!”
Uh huh
