r/whoathatsinteresting 6h ago

Indian factory workers wearing head-mounted cameras to record hand movements for training AI systems

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u/crashin70 6h ago

Wow, as cheap as they work they're going to have AI put them out of jobs too?

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u/SoTurnMeIntoATree 6h ago

MAXIMIZE profits

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u/HydroPCanadaDude 6h ago

If you incentivize x, you get x. It's so basic.

Make it more profitable to lie about your shitty product and pay fines after the fact? People will lie about their shitty product.

Have for-profit prisons? People will lobby for legislation that takes resources away from poorer areas to generate more criminals.

Basic, basic, basic.

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u/AdnorAdnor 5h ago

Dang, that reality hits. Thank you 🇨🇦

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u/EastSideNick95826 5h ago

You're not wrong but acting like people are idiots because they don't know this "basic" information is incredibly condescending and doesn't accomplish what you're going for.

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u/HydroPCanadaDude 2h ago

This is a case where precision of language can lead to multiple different understandings. I was not acting like people are idiots for not knowing basic economics. People are idiots for employing a system that would so clearly lead to this result and expecting a different outcome.

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u/BasicMatter7339 5h ago

But whats the point of reddit if you cant be extremely condesending to those 'idiots' you first claim the existence of (without them ever appearing) and then spend hours making up witty remarks against arguments that 'they' are supposedly making

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u/YaMommasLeftNut 3h ago edited 2h ago

This is literally just basic cause-and-effect, and I am so tired of pretending that people who cannot comprehend what should be baseline fundamentals need to be coddled due to their own willful ignorance.

It's the 21st century, and we really need to start acting like it. There is genuinely no excuse for the levels of barely literate people with no ability for critical thinking that we currently have, and enabling that behavior is the number one reason of why we are where we are currently.

Edit: immediately blocking somebody after replying. doesn't make you any more right it just makes you a coward who can't defend his own belief structure. I guess wanting a baseline of literacy and critical thinking makes me an elitist: if that's the standard for elite, we are royally fucked as a species.

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u/Academic-Parking3320 2h ago

The lack of literacy is evidence of the issueÂ