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Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated (www.404media.co)
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Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work.

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 66 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the need for intervention or mediation by regulatory agencies. Yet the drive to assess the performance of workers and to measure forms of labor which, by their nature, are resistant to quantification, has inevitably required additional layers of management and bureaucracy. What we have is not a direct comparison of workers’ performance or output, but a comparison between the audited representation of that performance and output. Inevitably, a short-circuiting occurs, and work becomes geared towards the generation and massaging of representations rather than to the official goals of the work itself.

-- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Or, to put it succinctly, that which gets measured gets done, and the people in charge of measuring don't know what's important.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

And then, eventually realizing this, they hire consultants for $$$, who offer two things, further tips for goosing numbers in silly ways, and also just direct advice for how to treat employees like utter shit, with a sharp, stainless veneer of "smart (because $$$ spent) business strategy".

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago

This hits so hard