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by frou_dh 1433 days ago
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I vaguely recall reading something about Amazon workers being fired in a fully automated fashion. So there is not necessarily always a human manager reviewing all the automated warnings and pondering their validity.
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we just had the news yesterday of the fairly large youtube channel that was automatically permanently closed due to false dmca claims.

it would be fascinating to see if anyone were thoroughly outraged by the automated failures in youtube’s dmca channel closure system yet defend amazon automating the firing of workers.

i’m guessing we’d find more than a few people defending one while being outraged by the other.

at the end of the day we need to consider that maybe we need to put more resources towards human intervention in certain areas where automation seems to be causing harm needlessly to quite a few people where the path to rectify the situation seems anything but clear.