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Oh, so Hertz has gotten wise to... every online platform that exists: Outsourcing all responsibility for their user-hostile bullshit to some vague "system" that cannot be held accountable.
And you can't go anywhere else, because everyone else is doing it (or soon will be) too!
Oh, this is a thing. It's called an accountability sink.
There is a really interesting book called the unaccountability machine by Rory Sutherland (if my memory is working). Worth a read
Rory "expert in all things" Sutherland?
He keeps cropping up in my youtube feed talking about a huge range of topics in his confident posh twat voice.
His background is in marketing... never trust a salesman
Oh, he has some strange views, sure, but he is like that magician that tells everyone how the magic tricks are done, except this is marketing not magic, so both sides don't like him.
Thanks! I knew there was a term, but just couldn't conjure it.
just wait till they start denying health insurance with it
I'm sorry ma'am I know you're upset, but the AI said it's not covered. The AI is numbers, and numbers don't lie.
United Health is way ahead of you. 1000 use cases, they tout. it's one of the things that lead to the luigi-ing.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/murdered-insurance-ceo-had-deployed-an-ai-to-automatically-deny-benefits-for-sick-people/ar-AA1vlbey
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unitedhealth-lawsuit-ai-deny-claims-medicare-advantage-health-insurance-denials/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/unitedhealth-now-has-1-000-ai-use-cases-including-in-claims-f3387ca3
Do they already not do that? They just call it "the computer".
I mean, it'll mostly be accelerating a trend that was already there. Also, the initial scramble to use the legal grey area to cover as much shady shit as possible in a: Well shucks, how were we supposed to know the neural net would make illegal denials? After all, the guys who trained it don't even know exactly why it does what it does kinda way