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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 119 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Working for an unfeeling entity that only cares about profits and doesn't care about you.

Sounds like working for any large corporation but with better pay.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 57 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

$30 an hour to poison their data while I'm doing my actual job sounds tight to me idk bruh

They can fire me but they can't not pay me.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)
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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

They pay you in AI dollars.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What if the AI are better employers than capitalists and we just end up working for them?

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Have you read "The Culture"? Because handing over power to the AI Minds is how you get utopian hedonistic gay space socialism.

Do you want utopian hedonistic gay space socialism?

I fucking do.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Humans have managed to kill millions of each other and start a mass extinction. I’m happy to give the machines a chance.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

At the moment, they want to start nuclear war. Maybe we need to convince them otherwise, before we consider "giving the machines a chance."

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

At this point I want a nuclear war. At least I won’t have to wake up early tomorrow.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

Destroying all nuclear weapons is definitely a prerequisite.

Then you're just left with genocide, like AI did in Gaza

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I dont care much for the gay part, but as long as it is voluntary i'm game

(Needs some actual fucking ai tho, not probability guessing machines)

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Fucking AI? I think pornhub has that....

[–] logi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

The gay is optional in The Culture (and sex changes at will), so yeah, I'm in.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I get most of what you're saying.....but what's the space part? I like living on ground. I mean, I'm not opposed to a new planet. We could travel there. But I'd like to live on a planet.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The 'space' part is just what happens in "The Culture" book series. They tend to stick to gigantic ships or space stations that have ecosystems, mountain ranges, and seas.

Though really it'd be classified as more anarcho-socialism I suppose.

I'm with you, Earth is better than we deserve and we should be focused on the problems we have here.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

we should be focused on the problems we have here.

Such as restoring earths beauty. There is ZERO reason why something absurd like 40% of America is just......parking lots. Or abandoned warehouses. Or abandoned malls.

This may surprise most people, but, this country is naturally beautiful! And it can be again!

We just gotta kick this bad habit we've had for 200+ years of forced slavery, and profit chasing.

Oh, and also, no more pedophile presidents.

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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Plenty of ground on a culture ship. Many of them are Big.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I looked at the site. Its just Fiverr, but without all the moderation/features that make the site usable, and with AI in the name. The majority of the listings were either obvious scams or were spam. Even those that weren't were pretty consistantly paying under $10 an hour. Beyond that, only one or two had anything to do with AI.

Edit: actually, Fiverr is more a marketplace for those hiring. This is bounties, so its closer to Craigslist - esspecially given the lack of moderation or verification.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's probably a system for laundering money, then.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

$30 an hour? uhh... Where do they offer these jobs again?

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is so, so cursed

Computer, end program.

Computer, exit.

~fuck~

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Sounds like Daemon (2006) by Daniel Suarez in which a decision tree established and runs a criminal organization to parasitize then displace nation-states by hiring talented people disaffected by corrupt governments.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Suarez rightfully notes that daemon had a better grasp on security

https://mastodon.social/@DanielSuarez/116022558577380409

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Translation: someone with a lot of illegal money is buying stupid jobs like 'counting pigeons' on a marketplace, but the person doing the work is a different account owned by the same person.

This is how money laundering works.

Dirty money in, bullshit job in the middle, clean money out.

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[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about the writer, but this sure reads like the machine is doing more good than bad. Even touting that human jobs are being created, as if counting pigeons for an afternoon is sufficient to make up for having been replaced at the grocers by a machine.

Also, wouldn't the machine needing to know how many pigeons you saw only need to know that because some other person asked it? In effect, isn't this just 'middle-machining' a gig job between two people?

I half want to give it a go and just provide wrong results from my couch, collecting some of those sweet VC bucks.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Counting pigeons sounds nice. Out in nature, lots of fresh air, and you can afford food because you’re making twice what you make at the grocer.

[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh sure, I'd be happy as a peach counting pigeons for an afternoon. Trouble is it's only for an afternoon where the grocer had me on a two week schedule.

Then again, might not be hired to count pigeons again when I put twelve million pigeons on my tps report haha.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Do you want to eat or do you want to afford rent next month? Maybe the machine has more pigeons to count.

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Bring a second set of clothes and a hat.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How is the AI actually paying the human? Last I heard AI’s lack you know, money

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Agents my dude. Idiots let the AI into their Venmo and shit.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

What if the AI devops have actually been exposing all these vulns on purpose

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I heard corporations are throwing trillions of dollars into AI.

And plus Mark Zuckerberg is rich. We can all agree that Mark Zuckerberg is AI, right?

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think he’s a lizard person, maybe a lizard person AI?

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Based on the mathematical capabilities of most LLMs I know, I can just fudge the numbers by an order of magnitude and the boss won't know the difference.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

There is an interesting video on this by Upper Echelon.

Well researched video.

https://youtu.be/rsw8FNB1wLc

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So you are hiring people to to odd/temp jobs. Why does ai need to be involved here?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

There it is.

A theory I’ve been working on: LLMs have created a Frankenstein’s monster trained on the internet and will control us via apps and Meta RayBans.

Wayze using us to test route-mapping. Mechanical Turk, etc.

My theory is already behind reality.

[–] muse@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Halfway to the plot of Eagle Eye

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Where are they getting real money to pay people?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

When chatbots die away they will qualify for government subsidies by showing the employees as excuse.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

so like fiver but with ai?

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

faiver

do me a faiver, guv? lol

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