Probably not as dangerous as her insistence that you could go into a Disney store to buy inventory; just put your own label on it; but easier to verify in 15 seconds.
But narcissistic psychopaths never see the point to verify what they already know (something I know all too well).
Not just one, but TWO stories today from the HR Dive newsletter about the effects that AI is having, and neither is good.
" This week in 5 numbers: Employees spend nearly a day ‘botsitting’ AI each week"
By the numbers
6.4
The number of hours that digital workers spend per week “botsitting” to make artificial intelligence usable, according to a report released by AI company Glean.
and this gem. I’m guessing that there will be a massive log jam at some point where the reality of the Peter Principle kicks in.
" AI may conceal growing ‘learning debt’ for fast-changing roles"
" A June survey of 1,200 employees in the U.S. ages 25-64 revealed that 41% said their role has evolved faster than their company’s ability to train them. Almost 6 in 10 reported using AI tools at least sometimes to complete tasks they weren’t trained to do, and 29% said they’ve delivered work they couldn’t fully explain if asked how they did it."
““The result is a workplace where performance doesn’t reflect capability,” and where organizations build up “learning debt” — the growing backlog of learning that accumulates when work evolves faster than employee training and learning can happen, TalentLMS explained.”
Rephrased for emphasis – 29% said they’ve delivered work they have no idea about what it involves… 
Only 29%? This sounds like an improvement.
It’s NOT going to get any better. This showed up on Yahoo News today –
'The incident signals that AI’s expanding capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts long feared and even top developers can be caught off-guard by flaws their models can exploit."
These AI developments are like watching a child play with a loaded gun.
Jul 22, 2026
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You must now tag product images that contain photorealistic AI-generated people with specific metadata before you add them to your listings and A+ content in any of our worldwide stores.
Recent legislation requires disclosure when images or videos in advertisements contain photorealistic AI-generated people.
To ensure compliance, you must use an IPTC-compatible metadata editor to add the keyword “contains-synthetic-performer” to the dc:subject (XMP) field of your image or video files before adding them to your listings and A+ content.
When you include this metadata, we’ll add an indicator to inform customers that the image includes AI-generated people, where applicable.
This requirement only applies if your image or video contains photorealistic AI-generated people.
You don’t need to provide this metadata if your image or video:
For detailed instructions, go to How to tag media that contains an AI-generated person.
For more information, go to Product image guide and Shoppable video guide.
More ■■■■■■■■ for compliance.
-Ana
Hey AI … the person image you created for our A+ content is an AI generated person image … but you knew that already … right?
This companion article might point to higher sale prices for the book sellers here. Sad to see that they’re destroying the books, though.
It is amazing that EVERYTHING that has been thought of in books and movies is happening.
We as a species can’t even learn from entertainment that we will destroy ourselves and that is pretty sad.
Rollerball 1975: The Computer Zero is tasked with storing the world’s knowledge as everything has been digitized. There no longer are physical books.
Jonathan E: Misplace some data?
Librarian: The whole of the 13th century. This - this is Zero’s fault - Zero, he’s the world’s file cabinet. Pity, poor old 13th century.
“an 860% increase over the allocated budget that was only detected some five months after the issue started happening.”
“a $541,000 additional cost that came from a project building, ironically, a financial auditing tool, and a $134,000 extra expense for a system designed to reduce delivery times in the company’s logistics network.”
I wonder if they have ever considered putting a ‘your price is too high’ monitor on their projects. You would think (oops, that’s the problem) that would be able to stop such overruns.
It certainly works well to stop sellers from making any money.
My boss’s ChatGPT agent has started making bad jokes roughly at my expense. I sent a message to another coworker who loves her ChatGPT agent, and hers is doing it too!
Yes, I know. I know, it’s based on what they put in. But stilllll. I don’t need to be bullied by an LLM text-prediction algorithm!
I’ve mentioned before that a substantial part of my (self-written, upon my ‘retirement’) job description is keeping abreast of Amazon’s ever-changing published policies.
I primarily fulfill that obligation by keeping track of the multitudinous SHC (“Seller Help Content”) pages; I do this by saving this or that page in .mht format, which makes it easier to see what’s been changed since last I archived it.
Beginning in Q1 (late January, from what I can tell) of 2026, the Editorial Team began adding Project Amelia/Seller Assistant ‘button’ web elements to many of those pages - w/o fanfare, or notification of any kind.
Also w/o fanfare, many of the pages which had those functionalities mere weeks ago - in a few cases, mere days - have now had them removed.
Project Panama, the Red Sparrow/Blue Finch/Green Parrot Projects, et. al are spending untold millions in an effort to train GenAI LLMs; OTOH, Amazon is trying to entice the Seller Community into willingly become guinea pigs in the same sort of training, at a mere pittance - hence Ram_Amazon’s
080326 ‘Engage’ discussion “Product Spotlight: Seller Assistant — Chance to Win a $100 Gift Card!” (link, NSFE).
It is perhaps noteworthy that the initial post was modified the next day, 080426 - probably, methinks, because the initially-provided Seller Assistant-invoking embedded link in the 2nd ¶ was flagged as being malformed.
Ram created versions of the same in various other Regional Marketplaces; I strongly suspect that the pushback seen from some sellers in ALL of them will continue to fall upon deaf ears.
Seriously, we are too “smart” for our own good.
AI is becoming our collective monster of the ID.
Forbidden Planet 1956
Lt. ‘Doc’ Ostrow: “But the Krell forgot one thing.”
Commander Adams: “Yes, what?”
Lt. ‘Doc’ Ostrow: “Monsters, John. Monsters from the id.”
The highly advanced Krell built a planet-wide machine driven entirely by their thoughts. However, they forgot that their primitive subconscious minds still harbored destructive and hateful urges.
Obviously AI is “learning” those same traits.
Political comments removed.
Our friend @dwat0870’s experience isn’t the first time I’ve heard tell of this; sadly, I strongly doubt it’ll be the last:
Sigh.
I like that. Thanks for posting it. It is now one of my favorites too.
