Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoRestaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines)discuss.tchncs.deimagemessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1887arrow-down16
arrow-up1881arrow-down1imageRestaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines)discuss.tchncs.deChemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square119fedilink
minus-squaresunzu@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoThis whole thing is a to send a message to begin with as with AI, actually more so. Most of the “AI job losses” are this sort of offshoring actually… Joke is on the wage slaves.
minus-squareRagnarok314159@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 months agoThis is pure Astronaut meme with “wait, AI is just 3rd world wage slaves?”
minus-squareSSJMarx@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoThey even gave it a cheeky name! “Mechanical Turk”, the thing that famously had a real person inside it pretending to be a machine.
minus-squareveni_vedi_veni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 months agoThere was an article that exposed Amazons cashier-less stores were just bunch of Indians overseas reviewing footage because their classification algorithms failed half the time
This whole thing is a to send a message to begin with as with AI, actually more so.
Most of the “AI job losses” are this sort of offshoring actually… Joke is on the wage slaves.
This is pure Astronaut meme with “wait, AI is just 3rd world wage slaves?”
They even gave it a cheeky name! “Mechanical Turk”, the thing that famously had a real person inside it pretending to be a machine.
There was an article that exposed Amazons cashier-less stores were just bunch of Indians overseas reviewing footage because their classification algorithms failed half the time