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[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

they usually outsource any of the menial tasks to people in the global south. I work with someone who had a startup dating app where they used "AI" to match couples, but it was actually just a university student in Indonesia who they paid to do 8 hour stints sorting people's profiles manually.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

The classic "Mechanical Turk" scheme from the 1700's lol

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