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   Mitch Wagner (mitchw@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 18:23:26 JST Mitch Wagner

   • Cory Doctorow

   Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : Companies like Tesla, Amazon and Cruise that claim to have replaced human workers with AI are often outright lying. Often, they’re instead replacing local employees with remote workers paid peanuts in India and other developing countries.

   “So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: ‘AI stands for “absent Indian.”’”

   https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/

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     Dieu (hllizi@hespere.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 14:19:14 JST Dieu

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @mitchw @pluralistic If you call it AI you won't have to explain why remote work from India is OK while people at home urgently need to return to their offices. It's very clever.

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     Coyoty* (coyoty@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 17:17:50 JST Coyoty*

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @mitchw @pluralistic Even "actual" AI is partly humans screening its output to make sure the answers aren't terrifying.

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