How the AI industry profits from catastrophe
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As the demand for data labeling exploded, an economic catastrophe turned Venezuela into ground zero for a new model of labor exploitation.

Ain't nothing new, but particularly bleak how quickly they're able to pivot to whatever the most easily-exploitable populace is.

  • Ideology [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Sorry, forgot Poe's law. :sicko-luna:

    But yeah, the word "robot" comes from the czech word for serfs or forced labor as it first appeared in Rossum's Universal Robots. Originally they were conceived as biopunk/frankenstein's monster sort of entities like in Blade Runner. The correlation with machines/automata came later. Asimov played with the robots as forced labor concept quite heavily and often in a tongue-in-cheek sort of manner reminiscient of ancient stories about tricky djinn or golems.