Post #4170821

2026-07-28 18:22 UTC

Would you prefer a job where: a) Work meetings are never recorded and AI notetakers are never used, but you have to take notes manually occasionally. b) Or a job where meetings are regularly recorded and are using AI notetakers, but you never have to take notes.

Replies (7)

@astronot@mastodon.online 2026-07-28 18:35

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange AI note taking systems are bad at their jobs. They don't reliably transcribe especially with jargon filled and non native english speakers. The summaries do not capture key decisions or social nuances ( or the whole damn point of putting people together to hash things out). Who proposed the decision? Who agreed to it? Who was silent, on mute, or absent when the decision was made? What was the justification? Even "what was the actual decision" (words matter)?

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@ucaccessnow@sfba.social 2026-07-28 18:50

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Needs to be filed under "Why abled people should care when disabled people bring up issues"... At least at the University of California, for disabled people at UC (whether students, staff, or faculty), there used to be human notetakers for those who had that access need. It was a good work/study job for abled students to be a notetaker. But since disabled people are always seen as a risk and cost "to be managed", the moment that abled decisionmakers could fob it off to Otter .ai, they did. This compromised privacy of disabled people. But people didn't care when it was mostly happening to disabled people... Of course, as soon as the tech was available to have these AI notetakers in online meetings, abled folks began to notice. The cruel irony is that AI corps love using "accessibility" as cover for their work. But if abled decisionmakers cared about accessibility, everything would already be accessible as possible. It's not about accessibility.

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@tracksandtreks@social.lol 2026-07-28 19:21

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I’d like to see fewer meetings and more asynchronous communication in general, but given a or b, a without a doubt.

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@TeflonTrout@beige.party 2026-07-29 06:06

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Writing notes means I never have to refer to them again, which is the fastest and most efficient possible outcome

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@miss_rodent@girlcock.club 2026-07-29 05:41

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange If you do not take notes yourself in either of these scenarios, I do not think you understand the purpose or usefulness of taking notes in the first place? What is even the point if you're not going to take them yourself?

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@0xrg@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 05:46

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I wonder how much worse decision making is going to get at companies because people start questioning whether to speak and be recorded, or not.

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@CaptainMalu@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 19:30

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I wouldn't really have a problem with being recorded in cases of meetings for documentation purposes. Automatically speech to text engines would be fine, too. But no ai and no third party service for processing. It has to be 100% in-house. I don't know why any company would like to share there internal meetings with another corporation. You can't control what is said in these meetings.

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