Gig workers are getting paid to film their daily chores to train robots | Teaching robots how to be human.
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Wouldn't it be nice if we all got a universal basic income to not sell out humanity to the robots and the new lords of technofeudalism
They are more likely to throw us in a wood chipper than give us UBI
Can’t backfire Won’t backfire Gonna backfire
This sounds like a scam to people as well a scam to investors. Seriously, just look at robotaxis.
Sunain, a data-capture startup with more than 1,400 contributors in Los Angeles, has turned local homes into miniature motion labs. The company mails out wrist-mounted cameras that capture detailed hand and arm movements as contributors cook, clean, or play. Azzam and Samra Ah...
Another scam to raise billions from the gullible.
Will they learn to hate their jobs and resent their bosses like real workers do? *"Yeeeeah, AI, if you could work all weekend without burning down the business, that would be great."* -Bill Lumbergh, Manager
AI is only as smart as the information we input into it, so maybe.
Could we just reset all technology to like 2015 or something? That would be great.
1999 please. The Matrix was right to call it the peak of modern civilization.
>In Los Angeles, one of the city's hottest new gig-economy jobs involves training the next generation of robots to move like humans. Across the city – from Santa Monica apartments to downtown coffee shops – hundreds of residents wear head-mounted cameras as they clean, cook...
To then turn around and sell it to people who can afford it for millions, and to replace the beeg gig workers supplying them with physical examples.
Jokes on them. I dont do any “daily chores”
Whether they can accomplish it or not the capitalist class's goal with automation (robotics, AI, etc.) is to make strikes pointless. It's all about taking away the working class's power.
Make Good Trouble!
They’re literally recording their replacements.
these jobs are too horrible to exist
This is a big part of Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano
Why are the robots crying?