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this feels somehow even more dishonest, like one of those smart contracts that promises a ton of automation but it’s all predicated on a human-driven service giving you correct answers, and the whole thing breaks down when that service does
You got to hand it to Amazon, at least they were honest their underpaid human robot workforce was a mechanical turk ;).
Facebook's fake Siri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(virtual_assistant)
this is the one! imagine employing a vast, underpaid workforce to roleplay as a fucking virtual assistant that nobody asked for. I think I’ve even seen someone on the orange site wish they could have M back, without a hint of irony