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Waymo turns out to be using remote operators from the Phillipines (futurism.com)
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Always had a suspicion, but its nice to know that you can just generally assume the worst about a technology these days.

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[-] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago

We already saw Waymos all stopping when the power went out in San Francisco recently

People act like AI in its current form was inevitable but this reliance on centralized computation centers is one of the ways it was shaped by capital specifically.

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