Not the Onion

Thanks! That's a pretty article with good reporting. https://archive.ph/xfIRm

The next paragraph also makes Chang seem less crazy, because for some people with social anxiety this sort of objective, non sentient intelligent feedback could be useful.

“Can I be more engaging and empathetic?” she says she might ask Claude. “What are the percentages of me talking versus them talking?”

For training in social situations, you could make a sort of game out of it. Have the LLM throw some smalltalk or flirty thing at you, and you have to banter back. The the LLM roasts your performance lol.

In a business setting this transcription does make a bit more sense. But it should all be locally hosted transcription, not blasted into the ether. Data protection laws should apply. All recording should be indicated ideally by some symbol like ⏺ or something. And you should have spaces for privacy. It wouldn't take much to make this less insane.

From the sound of it they are already overdoing it, like some datahoarder nonsense. Like navel gazing. Producing tons of data that nobody will ever look at. But maybe an AI could go through it all and extract some useful ideas or lost agendas or things that have fallen by the wayside. Like a "friendly overwatch management system" lol.

Which reminds me of Manna. I do think one of the killer applications could be management, like an AI managing people, deciding if someone can go home early without being an asshole about things. It could be used for good. Could also create a more classless society, because we'll all be low level worker drones haha.