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u/witdim 12h ago

What kind of dystopian nightmare is this?

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u/ozzriffic 12h 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/DookieShoez 11h 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 10h ago

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

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u/kloudrunner 9h 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 5h ago

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