Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores
2026-05-12 · r/technology
Amazon employees are gaming their AI tool usage metrics by finding pointless tasks to run through it, just to hit internal adoption targets. Nothing says 'revolutionary technology' like workers desperately inventing busywork to make the robots look useful. Corporate AI mandates meet Goodhart's Law — when the metric becomes the target, it ceases to be a good metric.