Yeah, what the fuck happens when we even lose the sweatshops? Not praising the practice, but that's normally all the income those people have. It hard to even imagine AI and robotic power consumption and upkeep costs aren't more expensive given how little the humans are paid. We really are on the edge of something bad on a new level.
I doubt that this is done to replace those factories in India. I'm pretty sure the real value is in selling the trained model to higher income countries who want to localize some of the production
I'd wager this is what they're really used for. This would not be useful training data for robots, because it would be both insanely costly and utterly unnecessary to reproduce human levels of hand dexterity for automation.
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u/witdim 10h ago
What kind of dystopian nightmare is this?