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Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores (opens in new tab)

Covered by 16 sources including The Atlantic, fastcompany.comDiscussed on r/technology

Covered in 18 articles

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America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek

Discussed on Hacker News

fastcompany.com·

One company spent half a billion dollars on Claude in a single month: Report comes as AI costs climb

fastcompany.com·

Amazon workers are under pressure to up their AI usage—so they’re making up extraneous tasks

Discussed on Hacker News and r/TrueReddit

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Tokenmaxxing is over. That’s because it never measured what really counts to see ROI from AI

lesswrong.com·

AI #168: Not Leading the Future

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Amazon workers are apparently 'tokenmaxxing' AI platforms to hit arbitrary usage targets

counterpunch.org·

Roaming Charges: Go Down, Moses

Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

Discussed on Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, and r/OpenAI

thezvi.substack.com·

AI #168: Not Leading the Future

Discussed on Substack

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At·

Premium: What If...We're In An AI Bubble? (Part 1)

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