AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

https://www.wired.com/story/shein-is-officially-the-biggest-polluter-in-fast-fashion-ai-is-making-things-worse/

“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.” It didn’t say it but it might as well have. If an AI could sit truculently it would have. We had a high tech starting contest. How have we got to this place? We’d worked so well together. It (I’d even got around to using “she”) had been my partner. I was getting a lot of pressure around “purpose” and “integrity” so I off-loaded to her. And that’s where this all started. She developed and ran the programmes, PR, audited what we do. And that’s the problem. She’s not letting me do it.