Training AI

[wtg]

Wow. People have it pretty rough…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/ai-training-work-jobs

[ShiroKuro]

@wtg wow that’s distressing.

In addition to AI training as the “bridge job” for them, I noticed the connection with health concerns that they had (the woman whose employment gap was partly caused by breast cancer, the man whose wife cares full time for their disabled son, the woman whose long covid forced her to quit her initial job).

Also, there but for the grace….

[Rontuner]

In this endless push to create more cost-effective efficiency, (replace human workers) I wonder in the future vision for society HOW people are expected to survive and be parts of society? I know in the science-fiction world, it was often written that people wouldn't NEED to work anymore yet still had an active part and the means to follow their dreams. I'm not seeing much of that being discussed for our future..

[Mik]

Aside from being contrary to the natural order of things, that Sci-fi future was always predicated on an endless supply of material goods and energy. We're nowhere near that.

[Axtremus]

Where's that Andrew Young?
We need to talk universal basic income.

[jon-nyc]

Andrew Yang you mean.

[jon-nyc]

We've all had this job, we just weren't paid for it. All those CAPTCHAs you do? That’s training Waymo.

Notice they all have to do with traffic. Click on shares that have a bus, a crosswalk, a boat, a bicycle, a traffic light, etc.

[Daniel]

@Rontuner said:

In this endless push to create more cost-effective efficiency, (replace human workers) I wonder in the future vision for society HOW people are expected to survive and be parts of society? I know in the science-fiction world, it was often written that people wouldn't NEED to work anymore yet still had an active part and the means to follow their dreams. I'm not seeing much of that being discussed for our future..

No, no, no. The people are meant to starve to death or be serfs. There are already planned, deliberate population starving events currently (but let's not go there) and plenty of slavery, only entering our "reality" as packaged stupidity- i.e the notion of "conflict free" diamonds as a description of mining diamonds, when there is, in fact, no such thing as, "conflict free," when it comes to the topic of mining, in general, around the globe.

What? Too cynical?

A basic income is a great idea, imho, but let's recall that we're housing some few homeless in garden sheds and then engaging in rituals of virtue signaling.

It's not as if our society is setting high bars.