Just people in India watching video feeds... sigh - ThreadSky

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omfproductions.bsky.social • 336 days ago

Just people in India watching video feeds... sigh

WHAT. I always wondered how they did it but that never once occurred to me!

That's also not what the article they link says.

If tech seems sufficiently advanced as to be magic, it is probably just hidden labor exploitation somewhere. Heh.

mcmillen.dev•336 days ago

this is, after all, the company who invented Mechanical Turk and was overt enough to *call it that in public* lmao

Sorry, double response, but if you grew up with Silverstein this will feel wildly reminiscent.

https://youtu.be/n5P6CJxBBEY?si=ZrBRPJiY9UgCKzYT

It's the mail sorter for Men in Black 2, every time.

"Any technology indistinguishable from magic is really just labor exploitation with a design budget"

Beat me to the Clarke joke.

Entirely wrong. The people in India were used to label training samples for the AI. it was actually using AI to complete the transactions.

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