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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 35 points 8 months ago (16 children)

I'm not convinced it's AI it's like Amazon's "AI smart stores" when you find out out it was just a bunch of Indian people were running it

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  • [+] -28 points 8 months ago (13 children)

    And how does being Indian specifically factor into this? 🤔

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  • [–] 44 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    They were, factually, Indian. It says something about the exploitation of poorer labor to impress some San Franciscans with fraudulent tech

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  • [+] -15 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    They were, factually, Indian.

    Whom are you referring to? A specific group/project?

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4

    They literally hired people in India (Indians) to review camera footage to make their walk out tech work and to improve the AI to eventually eliminate their own job.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Oh god. And I thought Amazon’s Mechanical Turk was terrible…

    How low can Bezos go? Wtf is wrong with this timeline

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This and other events are the source of the tech joke that AI stands for “Actually Indians”

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I recently lost out on some work (big retouching job) due to AI, when the client came back to me to fix the huge mess, it turned out the job had just been farmed out to India by the 'AI' company. They weren't even using a recent Photoshop version so were actually using less 'AI' than any pro retoucher would.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    It's terrible Amazon is replacing Turks with AI. It's like they learned nothing from the AImenian genocide.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Armenia apparently learned nothing from the Armenian genocide, fully banding the knees to the American empire and announcing their unapologetic support for Israel.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Sometimes this website is like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Minus the bacon.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Always happy to put on display how widespread the American empire's destruction is and how pervasive their propaganda and and influence are.

    Most of the world's problems today can be directly traced back to American capitalism.

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