So I had a fascinating conversation with an acquaintance yesterday wherein I found out that, at the business she works at, the employee spaces have surveillance cameras fed into - allegedly - 'ai' that will detect swear words and send a nasty email to the worker if such conduct is detected.
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@munin what the actual fuck. Like, I am already weirded out by any inside surveillance cameras but jfc, what
yeah she was pretty uncomfortable about it, but resigned in the "what're you gonna do about it" fashion.
And apparently this has been going on for a couple years, which leads me to believe the ostensible 'ai' is probably overseas labor.
She wasn't able to identify the service providing this, as the emails come from her employer's domain specifically, but I am now deeply curious about how much this has been deployed.
'cuz this is some cyberpunk bullshit.
@[email protected] I'm guessing either cheap outsourced humans or pipe the audio in short sections to a pirated copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking from 1998 to feed into a swear word regex. I mean - it doesn't actually need to be accurate, just trigger often enough people get scared and (most importantly) management think it's working. The very idea is pretty gruesome though.
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