• merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    My Project Manager at work used to be a founder of a dating app startup that sent user profiles to Indonesia to be manually categorised by a university student in her “free time” (aka 8hr shifts whilst studying too). Of course they called this “AI”.

    Now that I think of it how the fuck did that pass GDPR lmao

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Turns out automating jobs is way too expensive, much cheaper to just hire people for pennies to do the work of the computers. biden-ok-smart-guy

  • Terrarium [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Basically all “AI” automation companies do this. They show off a prototype backed by global south labor to get investors and then scramble to build what they promised. Usually they don’t build what they promised but they all got psid for 2+ years based on that bluff.