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Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

This is what happens when PHBs "measure" "productivity" in terms of arbitrary KPIs.

Sounds necessary given they must to meet some utilization quota or risk termination.

Kinda like how cobras were bred once there was an incentive to turn in their heads lol

Goodharts law at work

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