Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Microsoft - like every corporation - is insatiably horny for firing workers. It spent ...
Microsoft - like every corporation - is insatiably horny for firing workers. It spent the past three years cutting its writing staff to the bone, with the express intent of having AI fill its pages, with humans relegated to skimming the output of the #PlausibleSentenceGenerators and clicking "OK":
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-news-cuts-dozens-of-staffers-in-shift-to-ai-2020-5We know about the howlers and the clunkers that Microsoft published, but what about all the other travel articles that don't contain any (obvious) mistakes?
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