Of cause that is a BS reason. But they should have stopped using fax machines 20 years ago. How can any reason they give why they have to stop now be any other than BS.
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RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 months agoI don’t see how that makes sense as a statement, an ai with access to a 56k modem can send a fax. It feels like they’re just using ai as a buzzword.
denial@feddit.de 5 months ago
sweng@programming.dev 5 months ago
The issue is not sending, it is receiving. With a fax you need to do some OCR to extract the text, which you then can feed into e.g an AI.
GenosseFlosse@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
ChatGPT can recognize text on images already.
sweng@programming.dev 5 months ago
At horrendous expense, yes. Using it for OCR makes little sense.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
My phone can recognize text on images. How hard could it be to send that data to an AI?
DdCno1@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I was about to say, you could do serviceable OCR on a 486, which illustrates just how little processing power is needed for conventional approaches compared to this hallucinating AI nonsense.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 months ago
It reads to me more just as a statement of contrast, as in ‘we’re in a world of incredibly high-tech new technology, we shouldn’t still be using something from the Victorian era!’