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We are so getting murdered the moment everything is fully automated. Remember that how we are currently treated is how we are treated while the 1% needs our labor. Do not expect better treatment when we are "useless eaters"
"Training your replacement," Futuristic Dystopia edition.
they should get paid double. as theyre now filling 2 positions: manual laborer and AI trainer
Thats brutal, having to teach the system taking your own job. I'd try to poison the data with random gang signs and shit
wtf, why do all these robots keep jerking off
The AI training is likely not to replace them but monitor the quality and speed to find "efficiency gains" in the process and procedure. The AI is learning how to make a garment to know how to help managers be more overbearing.
Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they can raise your premiums by $10 that month to punish you for inattentive driving. Same gadget, different social arrangement.
https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/
Don't worry. The kind of work these people do is nowhere near possible to replace with AI. CEOs, accountants, lawyers and middle managers on the other hand...
I'd rather these jobs be automated than the ones AI is gunning for.
Why? Do you perceive manual labor as something that needs to be eliminated? "Bad"?
Yes. I do. I have performed manual labor and I've performed desk work in an office. The one where I could sit in a comfy chair with air conditioning and free access to a kitchen and reliably clean bathrooms was much better for me. Arguing that AI should be the decision maker positions and humans should continue to be manual labor is dumb. It's not like factory workers are free lance woodworkers creating fulfilling art. They're just selling their bodies to survive.
Manual labor isn't the description most would use for the activities in that factory...
CEOs, accountants, lawyers and middle managers
I’m pretty sure these are the jobs they’re referring to, not the manual labor
Brutal? Think about the poor ceo's! They really need that new Porsche this year, not next year.
Times really are rough when there is no yacht money around.
They'd have another set of indians labeling the shit making it useless.
That’s how almost every job works.
I’m a journeyman carpenter, my roles include training apprentices to replace me.
Aa yeah that beautiful job that fulfills my deepest calling of my immortal soul, Please stop the robots taking this blessing away from me!!
You think if they lose their job that there's just a better job waiting for them? There's a reason they took those jobs.
AI once again just standing for actually Indians.
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
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