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Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage–so they're making up tasks

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22 May
Amazon Employees Are Faking Their AI Usage

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12 May
Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.

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17 Oct
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12 May
Employees at the company say the move reflects growing pressure to adopt the technology after Amazon introduced targets for more than 80 percent of its developers to use AI each week and began trackin

Employees at the company say the move reflects growing pressure to adopt the technology after Amazon introduced targets for more than 80 percent of its developers to use AI each

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11 Jun
Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration

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23 Apr
Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements

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15 Jul
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