Oh yes headline, because doing both the phrenology app and a credit background check is impossible. Just too expensive! There is just no way both would be run as a matter of course!
They really think everyone but them is absolute rubes. And we keep proving them right by not stopping them.
We’ve been doing credit checks for years, that’s boring. This way we get to apply AI to an old discredited pseudo-science and pretend that it makes sense now. That’s FUN, and we get to use it as an excuse to fire a bunch of people and make more profit. Everybody wins!
![The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/14f5a0b4-82b6-498d-a689-36c2824dd296.png){kind=link}
Oh yes headline, because doing both the phrenology app and a credit background check is impossible. Just too expensive! There is just no way both would be run as a matter of course!
They really think everyone but them is absolute rubes. And we keep proving them right by not stopping them.
We’ve been doing credit checks for years, that’s boring. This way we get to apply AI to an old discredited pseudo-science and pretend that it makes sense now. That’s FUN, and we get to use it as an excuse to fire a bunch of people and make more profit. Everybody wins!