On Wednesday, Amazon shuts down a marketplace where half a million people got paid pennies to teach AI what a furnace looks like. Last month, a workers' comp office in Ontario cut 466 jobs after the staff helped launch the AI tool that replaced them — "we all were excited… until we found out it was making us all redundant." And a payroll company that actually counted heads at a couple thousand small businesses found the ones that turned AI on hired more people. Same technology. Opposite outcomes. The difference is what you point it at — and whether your crew hears about it from you first.
In this episode:
🔗 Show Notes & Sources
Story 1 — Mechanical Turk closes / raters fired for using AI
Story 2 — WSIB Ontario
Story 3 — Gusto: AI adopters hire faster
Spotlight — Indeed vs. ZipRecruiter
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