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[quote name="Mischief Maker"]Nobody is telling you not to follow the rules at work. <I>Assuming that Reddit post wasn't complete bullshit.</I> Companies are doing everything in their power to artificially boost the numbers they can cite for investors about how many people "use AI," and putting a gun to their employees' heads is an easy move. Nor am I arguing the tech can't be a useful tool in certain limited circumstances. But "AI" isn't being pushed as a limited tool, it's being pushed as something world-changing that everyone, even your children, must use incessantly to keep line up. It's an environmentally destructive speculative bubble that steals real people's intellectual property and is eventually going to crash the economy as more and more companies realize they were sold a bill of goods. [youtube id=_y6P-kXctlY] (skip to 2:17) <I>Even in the damn promotional video the AI reader misses a bottle!</I> [quote name="Reuters"]NEW YORK, May 21 - Starbucks (SBUX.O) terminated an AI program workers used for automating certain inventory counts this week, nine months after deploying it across its North American ?stores, according to an internal newsletter reviewed by Reuters and two people with direct knowledge of the situation.[/quote]<A HREF="https://www.reuters.com/business/starbucks-scraps-ai-inventory-tool-across-north-america-2026-05-21/">https://www.reuters.com/business/starbucks-scraps-ai-inventory-tool-across-north-america-2026-05-21/</A> Saying that this bullshit is a bad thing isn't "virtue signaling." Stop interpreting broad policy critiques as personal attacks![/quote]