alt Hacker NewsThe worst part of these AI meeting notes and recordings is that I have literally never seen anybody, in any situation, go back to them. The (very) few times I ever bothered to check the transcripts and especially the summaries immediately after a meeting, without fail they'd have something in them that is the complete opposite of what someone said in the meeting, or they'd miss extremely important clarifications or context. Literally worse than useless, actively detrimental, but you bet your ass whichever moron forced these to be on for every meeting is putting it on their resume - "Increased long-term organizational cohesiveness via comprehensive automated meeting notes" or whatever type of bullshittery.
That is a wild claim. Every single quarterly meeting my company has with customers begins with redistributing the notes from the previous meeting, and "to-do" points are regularly referenced.
AI notes are a godsend, because instead of forcing one person to keep careful notes throughout, the meeting's host can quickly review, edit, and send out the minutes - a job that otherwise would literally take more time than the meeting, because one person spent the meeting just taking notes. The AI notes require careful review, and contain a lot of repetitive fluff, but all notes require review before distribution.
So, now you are aware that this is a normal thing in other companies.