• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    8 months ago

    I feel like this kind of thing has a subtle second layer of frustration. The boss in this scenario might have learned why flexible lunch breaks are a good idea, but I doubt he learned the next level up idea of, like, listen to your workers. They might have learned about this specific scenario but don’t learn anything more broadly applicable.

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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      8 months ago

      Eh… I’m of a “that happened” mindset. Maybe it’s just me, but I have a hard time believing even a moronic manager couldn’t have foreseen the problem with this edict.

          • 4am@lemmy.zip
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            8 months ago

            It doesn’t matter what people comment, just that they do. Someone pointing this out, someone pointing out that it’s engagement bait, someone surprised at how cooked we are, someone explaining the general idea algorithm…doesn’t matter that our discussion was OT and pointless, this thing’s got people talking! Show it to more people and see if it takes off. No? Ok well it’ll still earn a normally small sum more than normal and/or slightly more reputation for the poster.

            Rinse and repeat until you’re getting millions of views and hundreds of thousands of dollars each week. It doesn’t matter if your content is trash. Every little boost is more EXP and you just keep leveling, keep grinding.

            The first “AIs” to manipulate us weren’t LLMs. When you ask a robot to curate, it’ll always be trivial to game that system.