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Weird, what does your union has to say about it?

Do you know what kind of sensors it relies on to observe its surroundings?

It's probably more than just this, but if anything audio related, you could try to come up with a poisonify device to fuck with it.

https://youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA

Might be more trouble than it's worth if you're not tech savvy, wish there was more stuff like this I could recommend.

ETA: Also wondering if something like a Flipper Zero or HackRF One could help create some convincing false-positives.

ETA2: read the replies to my comment, valid concerns regarding getting fired and/or throwing off the scent from yourself

You can of course quit now, but that will mean you're job hunting while unemployed, which is a far worse scenario. You can also just put up with it, but it sounds like that's a shit scenario too.

So the best course of action you can immediately take right now is go window shopping for a new job until you find something you like. Whether it comes by this week or six months from now, you have the luxury of having nothing to lose here and you have the best hand.

Even look at getting a new certification if you feel like it and if you can—ball's in your court. Every time that little bastard undermines you, let it be the fuel that's encouraging you off to greener pastures. Explain that in your exit interview, and remark on how they've come up with an interesting employee retention strategy.

Meta: Why aren't the bans showing up in the modlog?

While looking for a new job. Be slow and careful about everything. If the tattler is snitching on you, take your time to make sure everything is correct.

A well placed magnet might help...

This will become ubiquitous. Every job will soon have AI analyzing all your work throughput and flagging any employee for inefficiency.

I am glad I will be retiring in the not too distant future. I would not want to have to work with AI constantly watching me.

Find a company that's already unionized or form a union within your current company.

You might also tell them that the AI is distracting because it's constantly talking, which is likely true anyway.

My company has their own llm now meant for internal employees, what baffles me is they exposed the domain to the internet. Can’t wait for this to backfire.

I feel ya, mate. I've got the same thing in my company vehicle. It absolutely irritates the shit out of me that anyone above my level of the hierarchy can look at me any time they want.

Your options (pick any combination you please):

• do whatever you can do to make it more bearable in the short term (turn down volume of AI warnings, whatever else you can configure)
• Unionize
• Bargain with your company/Negotiate your contracts
• Get hired by a new company that gives a shit about their employees
• Become an owner-operator
• start a trucking firm with a bunch of other drivers that are fed up with that bullshit
• Find a different kind of job that doesn't require AI to surveil and harass you.

Alright, so you probably can't get rid of it, but you can make it look like it's defective. Make it look like it's sending way too many false positives. Find somewhere where you can get away with making obvious mistakes and then make like fifty of them in a row. "Why would I, an intelligent human being, just sit in the middle of an empty street doing donuts in an 18-wheeler for 10 straight minutes? I have a job to do," you say. If you got one of those "constantly monitoring everything you say" things Amazon tried rolling out, just start spouting random gibberish. Some pencil-pusher at HQ sees a transcript come back that just says "reptile shoestring meridian front sawdust henway ball Amtrak septuagint ladder correct horse battery staple java thorpe 2 Chainz" over and over for like 40 pages, worst-case scenario he's not gonna read it, best-case scenario he's gonna think the company's paying way too much for shit that don't work.