Absolutely.

I knew one company who mined the Twitter firehose for events to sell to news stations and the government who had over 60% of the events identified and surfaced by dedicated employees, and 100% of the AI identified events were vetted by a person before going out.

Still valuable, but it was always telling how those employees were never really acknowledged outside of the company.

Of course. Amazon Go stores are a good example of this as well. As are all kinds of content filters across the internet. A large percent of "AI" is cheap labor in third world countries sitting in front of a computer and clicking buttons. And if human assistance isn't happening in real time, there is still a ridiculous amount of it in the training stages.

A UK company called spinvox blew up when it was revealed that their speech transcription tech was actually a warehouse filled with people in Pakistan. In that case the blow up was due to data protection laws in the first instance, and investor confidence in the second instance. They had, of course, told everyone that their transcription system was a giant e-brain.