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There's a definite disparity in the dataset available to you and the dataset available to your employer. You can't Sony AI Uno Reverse your way out of this one.
Sure you can. You might have to pay a little for it.
Employers start with personal data on every one of their employees. And they can do slimey shit like this, if you're building a union you need to build trust, and monitoring your members wouldn't be doing that.
also this isn't jut some warehouse AWS is literally the biggest data infrastructure broker in history.
So what. You gotta try, even if it's not as good.
Maybe the money would be better spent on pizza to get people to come to your union meetings....
Or maybe it would be better spent on Claude. I've seen that AI do its thing, fight fire with fire.
Why would you fight trying pizza and AI?
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I have helped organize a workplace and I cant think of a way AI could have aided us. My fellow organizers would occasionally ask it advice or questions about labor law.
The first use case didn't produce anything overly helpful, but maybe it helped soothe their nerves. The second use case... We're not lawyers and the devil is in the details. Fortunately we had help from the organization we joined. They were extremely helpful and knowledgeable.
AI is great at sources and finding places that have done it before. Also, if you put in what Amazon is doing, there may be sources for laws that they're breaking, and ways you can legally counteract. Notice, I said sources. It can also help you organize all of the info*. AI is an amazing intern, but that's about it. Still very helpful.
If only I could afford that RTX 9990, I’d have a union….