internal company documents show that Microsoft plans on getting users "addicted" to AI agents. Not language Microsoft employees we talked to are thrilled about or believe in. www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
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Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal 404media.co
‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access 404media.co
'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack 404media.co
Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t Exist 404media.co
Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated 404media.co
Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive 404media.co
Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks 404media.co
Salesforce’s Internal AI Leaderboard Has Teams Competing for Little Trophies 404media.co
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This company wants to turn every school bus into a mobile license plate reader www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...
Amazon employees are posting memes on Slack about how their AI coding tool sucks www.404media.co/sloppenheime...
These AI generated flowers might seem obviously fake but thousands of people are falling for it and buying these seeds on Amazon, Etsy, and Ebay www.404media.co/scammers-sel...
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- Sellers on eBay, Amazon and Etsy are listing seeds for plants that do not exist, advertised with AI-generated images of impossible flowers.
- Before one eBay seller was banned, rainbow-colored rose seeds sold 37,271 times; fake teddy bear sunflower seeds sold 1,301 times.
- eBay said it has policies and controls and uses AI-supported monitoring; Amazon and Etsy did not respond to 404 Media's request for comment.
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Amazon tokenmaxxing leaderboard seems to have backfired and shut down. www.404media.co/amazon-shuts...
we talked to employees at multiple companies that are pumping the brakes on AI because it's so expensive to use www.404media.co/companies-ar...
Google keeps bragging about how most of its code is AI generated. Internally, employees meme about how its AI sucks www.404media.co/google-emplo...
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New: Salesforce's internal AI leaderboard has teams competing for little trophies. The dashboards we've seen also track each team's use of specific AI tools. Employees worried use of AI, or lack thereof, will be used in their performance reviews because execs pushing www.404me…
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