Cleaning up after the bots
2025-09-12

You know all of those stories about companies replacing people with AI? Turns out, it's not quite so simple: some of those same companies are hiring people to clean up the robots' work.

(Source: NBC News, "Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy")

Now, in one sense, this adds up: I've long said that you need to check the machines' outputs. So I can understand why companies would ask people to do this.

In another sense, no, this is silly: the companies would have been better off pairing up their existing teams with AI in the first place

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