This 2May2025 Amazon News Headline should be enough to make even the stoutest heart blanch:
https: //sellercentral.amazon.com/seller-news/articles/QVRWUERLSUtYMERFUiNHSDVDRVVaNllNSDJWUlRa
This functionality has actually been in existence for some time passed, admittedly, but every time I see something like this, I’m reminded of these hashtags:
Sigh.
I mean I have always assumed that most Amazon “bots” are just “mechanical turks”.
How does this relate to SAS, Well:
The company now owes $85 million to Amazon and $30 million to Microsoft in cloud computing fees.
Not quite sure how they racked up those bills of all the work was being done by humans, maybe just wasting CPU cycles?
Well, this does seem to have a very close resemblance to the touted (and FAILED) Amazon scam about their shopping program that let you walk out the door without ever checking anything out at a scanner.
These clowns all deserve each other but WE get stuck with the results of their actions. 
“after reports that its “AI-powered” app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence (AI).”
Read more at:
How this billion-dollar London startup backed by Microsoft made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI | - The Times of India ."
Read more at:
How this billion-dollar London startup backed by Microsoft made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI | - The Times of India ..
Yep, turned out that too was mostly humans watching cameras!
[sarcasm font] Hey, it was just the AI “training” phase. Real human engineers “teaching” AI what the response should be or when someone has finally decided on which item they are buying. [/sarcasm font]
mostly ??? … what were the other ones ??? … aliens ???
squirrels and crows
HA! - fat chance of that.
I hereby swear & declare that my people had nothing to do this debacle.
Amazon is building on that “success”:
One of the largest challenges that I can see about ALL of these data centers is how they are going to meet the massive amounts of electricity needed.
Utility regulators (and most/many others) never saw or had an inkling of the future needs. Due to rate concerns for the broader population they have NEVER been in favor of building in extra capacity above certain small incremental amounts.
One of the Public Utilities here in WI is attempting/planning to bring a nuclear reactor or two out of mothballs to meet the needs of already announced new data centers in the state.
More and more private companies are going to be able to mint money if they can get projects on line before the publicly regulated companies are able to get through the bureaucrats.
I’m ALMOST beginning to regret not finishing my Nuclear Engineering degree. And then I remember that we wouldn’t learn how to build the bomb until our senior year. Now you can get it on the internet…
I mean, our current grid is already insufficient for current demand, depends on intentional failures as band aids, and is entirely too vulnerable to sabotage and neglect.
Who is going to bring the U.S. “Grid 3000”, how on earth will they do it–and what will we give up for them to do it? 
I’m beginning to think that we need to hire the Ukrainians for a LOT of stuff. They seem to be able to achieve more with less than just about anyone these days.
And then we have crypto… 
Better than some other solutions…
“The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies,” said Michael Terrell, senior director for energy and climate at Google.
Ok sir, it’s clear that you read SellersAskSellers 
Speaking of what we will give up…nuclear isn’t perfect, but HECK YEAH it’s better than this:
AI is immensely power-hungry, and Musk’s company installed dozens of gas-powered turbines, known to produce a cocktail of toxic pollutants. The company currently has no air permits, appearing to rely on a loophole for temporary turbines — but environmental groups say the exemption does not apply, and residents are angry.
I’ve walked the lush, shady roads in Boxtown. It’s beautiful, right on the edge of the Mississippi–you take a wrong turn, and you get jump scared by Arkansas. Residents are the most recent generation to live on the family plots, and often several family members live on the same acreage in different homes.
I’m gonna bet on Boxtown.
“There is nothing more motivating on a Tuesday than reading that your job will be replaced by AI in a few years,” one person wrote in Slack.
ETA: Welp, @Pepper_Thine_Angus beat me to it 
I’ll believe that Amazon is “all in” on AI when they go CEObyAI. The CEO is just a “visionary” BS artist and AI is already good at making BS up. That’ll save $365k in salary and shitloads more in stock payout.
You could say that about outsourcing too, the CEOs never seem to get moved offshore, but boatloads of the little people do. AI will be the same.
This came across on the Thomasnet news this morning.
And how I expect it will go – https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16grCtWWXz/