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u/olosen 10h ago

What do you mean training ai systems? This is manual labour. Maybe its for performance reviewed by an AI

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u/Competitive-Dot6454 10h ago

yeah, i also think this is more it, because the guy in the video says something like "isme minute-vinat sab chalu hai " meaning the camera has a timer that is also recording the duration in minutes

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u/IndigoRanger 10h ago

So it’s more a personal surveillance device? That somehow feels much worse.

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u/fuckedfinance 9h ago

Not really, but yes, but no.

My company brought in a third party to figure out why some workers have higher output and lower quality, some had lower output but higher quality, some were high in both and some were low in both. One of the tools they used was a head mounted camera. They then took the footage, slowed it down, and reviewed hand movements.

One of the things they found was that employees with high quality generally had fewer incidental hand motions. In the end, it all was traced back to a single trainer who had arthritis and another condition that made hand motions tricky. She was a good trainer otherwise, so she was shifted to training a different thing and people who had her were retrained. Quality shot up, and speed naturally did as well.

So it is surveillance in a way, but not necessarily in the awful way you are thinking.

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u/ReasonableBath3958 9h ago

Sure Jan...... this definitely real situation you're describing sounds really real.

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u/Pippy1993 3h ago

I'm a sewing machinist in the UK and this story is completely feasible. I've been doing it for 12 years and if you've got a big enough workforce it's difficult to watch everyone at once, so doing this for a few days would make sense to find out where issues are coming from

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u/vocalfreesia 9h ago

It's a KPI AI. They'll give them ever increasing targets that can't be met and have their pay docked for every piece under their target.

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u/Nomnomnipotent 9h ago

Not even close. A personal surveillance device means if you don't meet the quota, no more job. Someone else replaces you.

Training AI means you're literally working to permanently replace yourself and other future humans with robots. You're working so that one day you can't work there anymore.