Struggling With Basic Math, Companies Turn to an AI Babysitter to Count Carbon Credits

Oh great, another desperate attempt to milk the environmental tech cow. This company, which I shall not name due to their already insurmountable ego, has introduced a brilliant idea for corporations too lazy to count: an AI-enabled data platform so they can keep tabs on the carbon credits they purchase. Yeah, you heard right. Let’s just hope the AI has more accounting sense than their human counterparts.

Implication of Using a Technological Sitter for Naughty Corporations

Because apparently simple accounting isn’t something that businesses can handle on their own any longer, the involvement of our silicon overlords expands to another market. This AI-enabled joke performs basic carbon credit tracking, ensuring companies can track their environmental impotence more accurately than ever before. And let’s not forget that it’s all funneled down by complex algorithms designed to deal with tasks too menial for corporate bigwigs. The implications of this technological prattle? More reliance on tech solutions for even the simplest tasks and some misplaced sense of corporate goodwill.

Wrap-up: Yet Another Algorithm Running the Show

So here’s the bitter truth. Companies are so desperate to paint themselves as environmentally conscious that they’re outsourcing basic math to AI. Or perhaps this is their clever attempt to deflect potential scrutiny and accountability? Either way, giving more control to cold, unfeeling algorithms only further emphasizes the corporate world’s shocking lack of basic human responsibilities. How about working on reducing emissions instead of buying carbon credits like they’re the latest fashion trend? Now, that would be a headline worth reading.

Original article:https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/13/treefera-2m-pre-seed-round-carbon-credits/