Trying to manufacture permission

I wanna expand on something I wrote a few months ago: One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone should have checked things”. “AI” companies want to sell machines to solve every issue but give no warranties, take no responsibilities and the same dynamic often extends to organizations using “AI”: You get the support-chatbot to promise you a full refund and when you claim that you get a half-assed “oh but that was just the bot, those tell bullshit all the time”. That’s where human in the loop setups come into play: What if the company can just hire one sucker to “check” all the “AI” slop and when things fall apart that one person has to take the blame. Diffusion of Responsibility I think this analysis still holds up. But of course it focuses on the perspective of big tech corporations and “AI” labs: Their idea of careless innovation…