AI Is African Intelligence:
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AI Is African Intelligence:
“It [Sex bot work] required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man. If I’m talking to a gay person, I need to act like a gay person,” he told me at a coworking space I met him at in Nairobi. After doing this for months, he, like other data labelers, developed insomnia, PTSD, and had trouble having sex."
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
404 Media (www.404media.co)
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AI Is African Intelligence:
“It [Sex bot work] required a lot of creativity and fast thinking. Because if I’m talking to a man, I’m supposed to act like a woman. If I’m talking to a woman, I need to act like a man. If I’m talking to a gay person, I need to act like a gay person,” he told me at a coworking space I met him at in Nairobi. After doing this for months, he, like other data labelers, developed insomnia, PTSD, and had trouble having sex."
This is abuse.
'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
404 Media (www.404media.co)
It's wild how so much of AI is just an abstraction layer for slavery.
It's a magic trick where the magic is just low-wage labor extracted from the global south.
Deep sea fiber optic cables across the world so that American's gain access to robot maids and robot sex workers operated by Africans.
What a silly future they want for us.
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It's wild how so much of AI is just an abstraction layer for slavery.
It's a magic trick where the magic is just low-wage labor extracted from the global south.
Deep sea fiber optic cables across the world so that American's gain access to robot maids and robot sex workers operated by Africans.
What a silly future they want for us.
@fromjason sad part is the headline is true in so many ways. Most women I know would rather screw a robot anyhow. 🫠
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It's wild how so much of AI is just an abstraction layer for slavery.
It's a magic trick where the magic is just low-wage labor extracted from the global south.
Deep sea fiber optic cables across the world so that American's gain access to robot maids and robot sex workers operated by Africans.
What a silly future they want for us.
Deep sea cable connecting the states to India, South Africa, and Brazil. Meta has also spent billions on improving latency, which is one of remote robotics biggest hurdle.
I haven't harped on my "Meta is pivoting to the cloud" rant in a while lol but, it sounds an awful lot like Meta found a way to outsource our country's service industry.
We might get— Applebees: Now Powered by Meta Robotics 🤮
Meta Will Build the World’s Longest Undersea Cable
Meta’s Waterworth Project will provide internet connectivity on five continents, with landing points in India, the United States, Brazil, and South Africa.
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@fromjason sad part is the headline is true in so many ways. Most women I know would rather screw a robot anyhow. 🫠
@JustaJason007 lol yup and who could blame them honestly
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Deep sea cable connecting the states to India, South Africa, and Brazil. Meta has also spent billions on improving latency, which is one of remote robotics biggest hurdle.
I haven't harped on my "Meta is pivoting to the cloud" rant in a while lol but, it sounds an awful lot like Meta found a way to outsource our country's service industry.
We might get— Applebees: Now Powered by Meta Robotics 🤮
Meta Will Build the World’s Longest Undersea Cable
Meta’s Waterworth Project will provide internet connectivity on five continents, with landing points in India, the United States, Brazil, and South Africa.
WIRED (www.wired.com)
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this thing I read (can't remember who wrote it ahhhh) about how AI will kill the outsourced coding market. And how project managers essentially assume that role.
As someone who considers themselves a project manager first, coder second, this is where AI affects my business the most.
Clients expect projects to be completed faster and cheaper.
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I haven't been able to stop thinking about this thing I read (can't remember who wrote it ahhhh) about how AI will kill the outsourced coding market. And how project managers essentially assume that role.
As someone who considers themselves a project manager first, coder second, this is where AI affects my business the most.
Clients expect projects to be completed faster and cheaper.
After 20 years, I can confidently say that I am a pretty damn good project manager and information architect.
But sometimes I worry that AI makes my role obsolete. Then I talk to a client who doesn't know what a browser is, and still sends photos in Microsoft Word attachments, and that anxiety is quickly alleviated.
This is the irony of AI. (Sorry this is a digression from the thread).
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After 20 years, I can confidently say that I am a pretty damn good project manager and information architect.
But sometimes I worry that AI makes my role obsolete. Then I talk to a client who doesn't know what a browser is, and still sends photos in Microsoft Word attachments, and that anxiety is quickly alleviated.
This is the irony of AI. (Sorry this is a digression from the thread).
The irony of AI is that it makes building things more accessible to the layperson but it comes at a time when technical literacy is at an all-time low.
A former colleague hit me up six months ago very excited about creating an app using AI. Every once in a while, I'll text him and ask him where he is with the project. And slowly, I've watched that excitement turned into confusion and frustration.
He simply doesn't have the knowledge to move this project past the sandbox
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@JustaJason007 lol yup and who could blame them honestly
@fromjason Its so damn sad.
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The irony of AI is that it makes building things more accessible to the layperson but it comes at a time when technical literacy is at an all-time low.
A former colleague hit me up six months ago very excited about creating an app using AI. Every once in a while, I'll text him and ask him where he is with the project. And slowly, I've watched that excitement turned into confusion and frustration.
He simply doesn't have the knowledge to move this project past the sandbox
Digressing again—Funny that OpenAI issues a code red to pivot to business related applications in the same week Microsoft issues an apology to its business customers for shoving AI into all their business applications.
I suspect OpenAI is cooked and Sam Altman is terrible at making deals. OpenAI has nothing going for it but a viral product launch three years ago. They don't have physical infrastructure like Microslop, or even a software ecosystem like Office.
They barely have brand loyalty.
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Digressing again—Funny that OpenAI issues a code red to pivot to business related applications in the same week Microsoft issues an apology to its business customers for shoving AI into all their business applications.
I suspect OpenAI is cooked and Sam Altman is terrible at making deals. OpenAI has nothing going for it but a viral product launch three years ago. They don't have physical infrastructure like Microslop, or even a software ecosystem like Office.
They barely have brand loyalty.
@fromjason Though they have a federal contract
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Digressing again—Funny that OpenAI issues a code red to pivot to business related applications in the same week Microsoft issues an apology to its business customers for shoving AI into all their business applications.
I suspect OpenAI is cooked and Sam Altman is terrible at making deals. OpenAI has nothing going for it but a viral product launch three years ago. They don't have physical infrastructure like Microslop, or even a software ecosystem like Office.
They barely have brand loyalty.
@fromjason god I hope so
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Digressing again—Funny that OpenAI issues a code red to pivot to business related applications in the same week Microsoft issues an apology to its business customers for shoving AI into all their business applications.
I suspect OpenAI is cooked and Sam Altman is terrible at making deals. OpenAI has nothing going for it but a viral product launch three years ago. They don't have physical infrastructure like Microslop, or even a software ecosystem like Office.
They barely have brand loyalty.
Like, what is Sam Altman's moat?
Sam signed a deal that made OpenAI much more dependent on Microsoft than Microsoft to OpenAI.
Microslop could ditch ChatGPT tomorrow for something made in house, and customers wouldn't even notice because OpenAI allowed MS to white label ChatGPT as Co-pilot. They don't even get a "powered by ChatGPT" tagline lol.
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Like, what is Sam Altman's moat?
Sam signed a deal that made OpenAI much more dependent on Microsoft than Microsoft to OpenAI.
Microslop could ditch ChatGPT tomorrow for something made in house, and customers wouldn't even notice because OpenAI allowed MS to white label ChatGPT as Co-pilot. They don't even get a "powered by ChatGPT" tagline lol.
Compare all the major players to OpenAI, and you sort of get the sense that ChatGPT is the Hydrox of the AI market.
Even Meta who doesn't have a household name AI model is so much better positioned than OpenAI.
Meta has the most impressive cloud computing infrastructure and they keep dumping billions into it. Yeah, the Metaverse closed but the datacenters remain.
Hell, Zuck *just* announced a custom AI chip set. Altman, conversely, is jet-setting across the globe begging people for compute.
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@fromjason Though they have a federal contract
@Lightfighter they do! It's a $200mm contract with the Pentagon.
OpenAI also lost $10billion last quarter. So that $200 milly will pay for 1.5 days of operation.
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@Lightfighter they do! It's a $200mm contract with the Pentagon.
OpenAI also lost $10billion last quarter. So that $200 milly will pay for 1.5 days of operation.
@fromjason Oh yeah, not exactly a path to profitability. I'm pretty sure, Our AI is used to track and kill people, probably won't be the winning tag line they think it is.
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After 20 years, I can confidently say that I am a pretty damn good project manager and information architect.
But sometimes I worry that AI makes my role obsolete. Then I talk to a client who doesn't know what a browser is, and still sends photos in Microsoft Word attachments, and that anxiety is quickly alleviated.
This is the irony of AI. (Sorry this is a digression from the thread).
@fromjason In this, the year of our Lord two thousand two hundred and twenty-six, trying to get a vector graphic of a logo. Even a high-res JPEG.
Let’s not get how IATA for daring to ask people to use comments in a PDF.
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@fromjason In this, the year of our Lord two thousand two hundred and twenty-six, trying to get a vector graphic of a logo. Even a high-res JPEG.
Let’s not get how IATA for daring to ask people to use comments in a PDF.
@BramMeehan the corporate world is so deeply and fundamentally dysfunctional when it comes to communication, even and especially the types of communication required to just not lose expensive files between departments. 🫠
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