staff are too overworked to have a friendly conversation with the lonely patients, so let’s shove an AI into a bastardized representation of a little girl! yeah great idea guys. if I was lonely in a hospital and they sent a fucking robot to talk to me I might actually get violent.
Your feedback is important to us! Would you mind taking a brief survey regarding your recent stay at our hospital?
- What could we have done better?
- How attentive was our staff?
- Jk we don’t care
- Your bill is $40k
- Go fuck yourself
Its like they watched Patch Adams and thought it was a great idea but let’s replace him with a soulless avatar to save money
It’s definitely pretty tone-deaf.
If I were left to languish in a nursing home cared for by understaffed nurses and missing genuine human interactions with my family or whatever, and a bot emulating a 7 year old showed up and tried to cheer me up by playing my favourite song, I would start a riot.
Disappointed they didn’t call it Megan (M3GAN)
You know what’s an even better way to combat staffing shortages? RAISE PAY UNTIL YOU CAN HIRE MORE STAFF you efficiency-gargling thieves. It’s called a “free market” maybe you’ve heard of it? You have staff shortages because YOU DON’T WANT TO PAY PEOPLE. WE ARE PEOPLE. PAY US, MOTHERFUCKERS.
