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Surprise, Meta's latest AI gimmick is just underpaid humans

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That article seems to be a 2nd hand take on this: https://www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-agent-calls-that-...

Anyways, aside from being make believe, there's another good point that this is disclosing private information to humans, probably not well paid ones at that?

Meat proxies; proxying the transfer of wealth for the benefit of the few at great cost to the many.

It was reminding me of the AI cleaning robots who turns out were just third-world workers watching on cameras directing the robot what to clean. After it came out that humans were driving the robots remotely they changed their branding to "AI-assisted remote human teleoperation."

Also Waymo does this and some robot delivery company.

Waymo does not do this. You can't remote drive a car.

This feels like an incomplete statement. Waymo makes decisions locally and also escalates to humans, often. Humans making decisions at intersections or important route moments or unexpected scenarios is probably the right move for a long time, in my opinion. The moment by moment decisions are onboard as they have to be but it isn't "wayno doesn't do this".

IIRC the car typically asks yes/no questions, but comes to a safe stop on its own first. In some cases they might draw an escape route for it on a map.

They just reinvented Fiverr.

Remember Facebook’s chatbot, ‘M’[0]?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(virtual_assistant)

  Some Meta employees have been praising Muse on X, where AI boosters and AI agents alike can share ever more hype about the technology that’s boiling the Earth. Internally, though, Meta employees realize that a human-driven AI making calls for users has potential for “so much negative PR,” warning co-workers on the board that “It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch. Another post, with a fairly lucid handle of the situation, wrote, “Please PLEASE do not release this as-is and at least make this a user preference if we absolutely must launch this. Please.”

Just beautiful.

even if its true, its only for one feature of Muse right? Everything else is fully automated.

the post and headline is clickbait and gives the wrong impression that muse itself is operated by humans. very few people will use the voice or call feature.

the post reads a bit amateurish and ignorant

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