Just Let Zoom Be Zoom

Good is never good enough.

This story in The Verge about Zoom CEO Eric Yuan’s dystopian vision for AI digital copies doing our jobs has been making the rounds.

Yuan “wants to take on Microsoft and Google in the enterprise software market by making docs and email and other productivity tools like chat.” He wants “digital versions” to take over the menial work of sifting through spam and interacting with your coworkers via email. Or are they just bots too?

WTF?

Eric, you have a product everyone loves, everyone uses, and you get to make buckets of money selling it. What are you doing? Why isn’t making buckets of money good enough? Please just stay in your lane.

Dare Obasanjo got it exactly right:

A deepfake me that can attend my Zoom calls and make decisions is at best hype and at worst insulting to other meeting attendees.

What else is there to say?