AI Is Listening to Your Meetings. Watch What You Say. (msn.com) 33
AI meeting transcription software is inadvertently sharing private conversations with all meeting participants through automated summaries. WSJ found a series of mishaps that people confirmed on-record.
Digital marketing agency owner Tiffany Lewis discovered her "Nigerian prince" joke about a potential client was included in the summary sent to that same client. Nashville branding firm Studio Delger received meeting notes documenting their discussion about "getting sandwich ingredients from Publix" and not liking soup when their client failed to appear. Communications agency coordinator Andrea Serra found her personal frustrations about a neighborhood Whole Foods and a kitchen mishap while making sweet potato recipes included in official meeting recaps distributed to colleagues.
Digital marketing agency owner Tiffany Lewis discovered her "Nigerian prince" joke about a potential client was included in the summary sent to that same client. Nashville branding firm Studio Delger received meeting notes documenting their discussion about "getting sandwich ingredients from Publix" and not liking soup when their client failed to appear. Communications agency coordinator Andrea Serra found her personal frustrations about a neighborhood Whole Foods and a kitchen mishap while making sweet potato recipes included in official meeting recaps distributed to colleagues.
This just in.... (Score:5, Insightful)
In summation, if you are in a professional work place, you need to act like a professional at all times. If you can't, you may be in the wrong profession.
Re:This just in.... (Score:5, Informative)
Humans not wanted here. You cannot be human while we are paying you.
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In that case, any such hiring requirements as 'fitting in with the team' need to be abolished as the expectation is for everyone to just be robots without personality and with no interpersonal relationships with their colleagues.
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"Personality" and interpersonal relationships don't require badmouthing colleagues or clients in official meetings.
Re:This just in.... (Score:5, Interesting)
In that case, any such hiring requirements as 'fitting in with the team' need to be abolished as the expectation is for everyone to just be robots without personality and with no interpersonal relationships with their colleagues.
The end-goal of the owner class is to turn the population into easily interchangeable cogs, and this step is one that's been difficult to implement. Maybe that's the real benefit of AI? Making sure we're all being spied on consistently enough that we stop acting as individuals.
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That's correct, you should have no personality, no preferences, and never complain. The ideal employee.
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Just last week the meeting AI included Bob's opinion of Amy's tits in the minutes of the board meeting because it was somehow relevant. Then it summarized a discussion Amy in HR had with Tiffany about how big they thought Tyrone was. And this AI is so good it even described Chad's early morning fart in detail, with aromatic intelligence (the other AI).
Re:This just in.... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't say anything sarcastic.
Yeah THAT'S realistic.
Re: This just in.... (Score:2)
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This reminds me of the movie Liar, Liar with Jim Carrey. He's in court and they are announcing the "Honorable Judge" and Carrey say's "Honorable my ass" under his breath but then quickly looks over at the court transcriptioner shaking his hands no no no don't add that.
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And “keep your eyes a little wide and blank. Show no interest or excitement.” ref [wikiquote.org]
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You do not, but you do need to know who is listening. The transcription software will send transcripts to all *INVITED* meeting participants. It's important to know the difference between who is on the screen and who is included in a meeting.
No need to go full sterile and robotic. Just use a bit of care.
Limitless surveillance (Score:1, Flamebait)
Not that I expected to get very far. AI is extraordinarily desirable for the ruling class and virtually all right wing social media spaces or just propaganda Mills.
It has been slightly am
The llm is getting better (Score:3)
kinda problematic (Score:2)
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people assume you're recording, so they are suspicious or tell you they cannot consent so turn it off.
Tell them you are hard of hearing. Most people will understand.
If you can, use a transcription app that explicitly does not save audio or text beyond the current session's look-back buffer.
In the workplace, you may have legal protections if your hearing is so bad that you need this as a medical accommodation. Outside of work though, you may just have to rely on charm and sympathy to get people to accept it.
And? (Score:2)
Tiffany's joke at the client's expense was a tragic error. But, it's all on here. take AI out of the equation. What if Tiffany had simply done it on the, popular and quite standard for years, recording?
All the other stuff is just inconsequential chit chat. Frankly I find the sign-on scuffle of every fucking meeting - I can't get in, you're muted, my camera doesn't want to work, will you be distributing the recording, sorry for being 15 minutes late can you start over because I'm out of the loop. - to be a f
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> What if Tiffany had simply done it on the, popular and quite standard for years, recording?
That's the entire point: she probably wouldn't have.
This would never have made it into any human made meeting notes, as it was an inconsequential joke, the acceptability of which rests solely on her peers in the meeting.
Review before Sending (Score:5, Insightful)
This is actually a story about people who don't check their work ("bad employees" is the term I would use).
All of the problems noted are due to people not taking the time to "LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE SAYING".
These are people that are willing to send out results without review. They think they know what they sent, but they don't actually know.
They are the problem, not the AI. They are lazy.
Meeting transcripts are fabulously useful. My notes are keywords now, which I can then cross reference with the transcript after the meeting.
As the article makes clear, much care needs to be taken with such source material as well as information derived from them.
In this case the AI did what it was told, summarizing everything. This is easy enough to avoid, here's a sample prompt:
For the meeting transcript below, please provide:
1. To Do List - Provide a list of follow up Tasks by Party.
2. Issues - Identify, classify, and provide details around any issues mentioned.
3. Technical Discussion - Identify and summarize any technical discussions.
Guidelines:
- Ignore unrelated personal commentary.
{transcript}
Much worse than that is... (Score:3)
The scenario cited doesn't seem that problematic to me. You open your mouth at work, your coworkers might hear you, including ones you didn't intend to hear. So watch your words.
The real concern about AI meeting transcribers, is that the company that owns the chatbot, also has full access to every word that is said. Depending on the company that built the chatbot, they might be providing the service in exchange for sending your data to marketers or even competitors. That chatbot may not be bound by an NDA like human participants. And if the chatbot is free, you can bet the owners of the bot are paying for it *somehow*, and it's not for charity.
The news (Score:2)
AI is actually listening inmeetings, not sleeping like your coworkers.
Who needed this advice? (Score:2)
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OBS then flipping through the audio at 1.5x is simpler for me than any AI-based transcribing. I ultimately have to turn the meeting into some highlight minutes and action items, or I actually have to fit the important points of the meeting into my head and make a decision. Letting an AI do either of these doesn't help me much.
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The proper reaction (Score:2)
2) walk by the meeting and say something embarassing, as if you're talking to someone else on a phone. For example. "...and I thought the rash on my penis wasn't anything to worry about".
3) enjoy the aftereffects.