The response of Amazon and Facebook employees to mandates to aggressively use artificial "intelligence" have been to actively sabotage that effort by creating junk usage metrics.
This is not a surprise.
Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently.
The Seattle-based group had started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens — units of data processed by models.
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“There is just so much pressure to use these tools,” one Amazon employee told the FT. “Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximise their token usage.”
Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data.
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Meta employees have similarly engaged in so-called tokenmaxxing to improve their standing on internal leader boards.
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More than three dozen Amazon employees worked on the in-house tool, according to internal documents. One recent memo describing the bot said: “It dreams overnight to consolidate what it learned, monitors your deployments while you’re in meetings and triages your email before you wake up.”
Multiple Amazon employees said they were concerned about the security risks of an AI tool that was granted permission to act on a user’s behalf. This risks situations where the agent may make errors or undertake unintended actions.
“The default security posture terrifies me,” one employee said. “I’m not about to let it go off and just do its own thing.”
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