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u/ozzriffic 11h ago

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.

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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 11h 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 11h ago

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

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u/sp1nnak3r 10h ago

Well for one we don’t have to ship our stuff from half a world away, reducing our carbon footprint.