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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 03:11:37 JST Eaton

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   • Ethan Marcotte

   @beep we really should’ve known when amazon named its big system “the mechanical turk”

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     Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 03:11:38 JST Ethan Marcotte

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     [stares directly at camera] https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-remote-control-robotaxis

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     Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 03:11:39 JST Ethan Marcotte

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     Someone once gushed to me about the remarkable new careers these technologies will create. I responded by saying “AI” has created a tremendous number of jobs over the last decade, and that “remarkable” is the last fucking word I’d use to describe them.

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     Ethan Marcotte (beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 03:11:40 JST Ethan Marcotte

     Always remember that advances in “artificial intelligence” are driven directly by exploited human labor: specifically, by underpaid contractors working under tremendous precarity, often while reviewing horribly traumatizing content:

     https://www.cbsnews.com/news/labelers-training-ai-say-theyre-overworked-underpaid-and-exploited-60-minutes-transcript/

     (cw: descriptions of having viewed violent, extreme content; discussion of resulting trauma by those who viewed it)

     #labor #TechLabor #1u