Burger King Will Stick AI In Employees’ Headsets To Make Sure They Say ‘Please’ And ‘Thank You’

Kotaku | 26.02.2026 16:15
As big business desperately tries to justify the impossible waste of money, resources, time and jobs that have been lost to the scam that is “AI,” we are going to see increasingly ridiculous uses of the completely useless LLMs with which the planet has been lumbered. Today’s entry in that painfully long list is Burger King’s latest venture, via which, as The Verge reports, the poor underpaid staff of its restaurants are going to have a chatbot placed in their headsets, a GenAI that’s going to spy on them and judge their performance.