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The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women (futurism.com)
submitted 6 months ago by andybytes@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 195 points 6 months ago (14 children)

"Young Chinese women have small fingers," the article reads, "and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said."

This 100% reads like LLM output; it's confidently wrong, isn't using proper news copy syntax, and got weirdly vague as it trailed off ("the small device").

NYT is publishing AI articles.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 104 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Wasn't this also the argument for child labor? "Small children can fit into tight spaces easier, lets use them to unjam dangerous machinery"

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 62 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But the children yearn for the mines!

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's all about the roboblox these days. The kids yearn for robots.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

The kids yearn for robots.

I know I did back in the 80s and 90s when I was a kid. Perfect example of a monkey paw wish, though, as fascists gonna fasc

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