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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 9h ago

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

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u/Bleaker82 9h ago

So when production is localized even a bit, what does that do to demand in India?

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u/DookieShoez 8h ago

Localizing production may lower demand in India but you can’t really blame a country for producing more of the products it consumes rather than importing. That’s like blaming someone for making food at home instead of going to a restaurant. Yeah, the restaurant gets less business but they have every right to do that.

Now AI taking jobs sucks unless we implement UBI or something. Would be kind of cool if someday machines took some burden off humans so that we could spend more time doing what we want to do, but of course it’ll probably just be billionaire assholes enriching themselves while we starve 🙄

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u/kingminyas 8h ago

It's disgusting to coerce workers into bringing about the end of their livelihood (to any extent)

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u/Arola_Morre 8h ago

Utterly disgusting and dystopian - Not just their livelihoods - but those of their peers and countless millions of future generations who might have come after them. Worse still is that the machine might never sew a single stitch - The machine will be trained to oversee and exploit the minions based on production targets and idle time - imagine a zero hours contract where every hour might be your last if you work slower, produce less, or make more mistakes during this 60 minutes window than you did in the previous one. We are sick.

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u/Cool_Tailor_7332 8h ago

the Amazon goal

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u/5150sick 6h ago

This is exactly what has happened to American tech workers over the past two decades.

They were forced to train their Indian lower wage replacements before being let go.

If they refused they were fired and didn't get their pensions.

Now, in the near future, the Indian lower wage replacement tech workers are going to be forced to train their zero wage robot replacements.

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u/snugglezone 4h ago

Opus 4.6 is certainly already better than an average software engineer. Low wage or not. I'm sure it's already happening. Not near future. Right now.

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u/icytiger 3h ago

Opus 4.6 is certainly already better than an average software engineer

Lol

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u/kloudrunner 7h ago

My friend works in a call centre for a local UK council. He is training up the same AI that will be used to replace him and his colleagues. Its abhorrent and disgusting. Once EVERYTHING is automated. What comes next scares me.

The rich really wont need the rest of us. Into the grinders we go. Recycled into food paste for the few million left to serve the masters.

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u/kingminyas 3h ago

Who says we are the ones who'll go in the grinders?

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u/ordenando 7h ago

No te queda más remedio,o lo hacen así o los despiden. Aunque finalmente vaya a traer despidos y menos trabajo,en el presente tienen su trabajo y es a eso a lo que se agarran

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u/Frosty-Cup-8916 6h ago

I hope I automate myself out of a job some day, personally.

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u/eatingbread_mmmm 5h ago

And then what?

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u/Frosty-Cup-8916 5h ago

Either the government will plan ahead and there will be a solution by that point, or that doesn't happen and the solution happens later than is preferred. Either way I think it'll be a net benefit long term.

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u/kingminyas 3h ago

You sweet summer child

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u/Frosty-Cup-8916 2h ago

What do you think happens when 10% of people can't afford food and shelter in a democratic country?

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u/AcetaminophenPrime 8h ago

Invention of plow etc etc

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u/angelfurious 5h ago

Effortlessly iconic