Amazon would rather pay nothing to 1,000 people than pay a living wage to probably 100 store employees. And someone on a zoom meet bobble headed along thinking that was The Idea of the Year

Yeah…. I heard about this..

No doubts about it. 😂

I was going to make a joke about how it's all just a big mechanical turk (the miraculous chess-playing "automaton" from the 1700s that was really a guy in a cabinet moving chess pieces), only to discover Amazon calls its international outsourcing product...drumroll....

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

This is some flapjack level shit

E'mad Mustaque kinda bullshit

Next we'll find out that Bangladeshi sweatshop workers have been painting on all those extra fingers

Not for nothing is one of the harsher jokes about AI as invisible-ized labor "Absent Indians"

AI is like the human cloud : it's just someone else's brain