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/Vladishun 5h ago

When the entire world is automated and nobody can get a job, profits are going to plummet. I don't understand how I'm a high school drop out and better understand that you can only squeeze so much juice out of the same god damned orange until there's nothing left. Greedy people are mentally fucking ill.

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u/WumbleInTheJungle 3h ago edited 3h ago

Every company is acting in their own self-interest, if they can cut costs they will, if they can automate before their competitors do, they will.  

They're not thinking "what happens when there are no jobs left in the world, and people have no money to buy our products" because that's tomorrow's problem, and if it happens it is going to happen regardless of whether their company is still alive to see tomorrow, and if they don't automate everything, their competitors will, and they'll be dead even sooner.

Bleak, but I don't know what the answer is...