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• @ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi on bluesky

  This is why AI “inspiration” - slop outputs fed into new chatbots - creates an near-immediate systemic collapse, and also why tech companies want to turn human creatives into little piggies that do nothing but feed the slop machine, because they *know* it's unique and valuable

• @joshdzieza Josh Dzieza on bluesky

  AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs.  I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.

• @joshdzieza Josh Dzieza on bluesky

  One type of project had teams of HR managers, lawyers, or bankers role-play their jobs inside a simulated corporate environment, producing fictional slide decks, financial analyses, and meeting notes with which to test train AI models. www.theverge.com/cs/features/ ...  [image]

• @joshdzieza Josh Dzieza on bluesky

  AI labs are paying billions of dollars for data on practically any job you can think of: consultants, chefs, private investigators, graphic designers, teachers, archivists, wildlife conservation scientists. www.theverge.com/cs/features/ ...

• r/technology r on reddit

  Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they're teaching AI how to do their old jobs. …

• r/TrueReddit r on reddit

  The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers

• @joshdzieza Josh Dzieza on bluesky

  The intermittent work, productivity monitoring, and surplus of AI-vetted contractors means that workers are effectively always on call, often work overtime, and are paid for only the minutes they are typing. www.theverge.com/cs/features/ ...  [image]

• @felipedlh Felipe De La Hoz on bluesky

  I really hope everyone reads this.  The future we are building for ourselves is not for people.  It is untenable

• @frankpasquale Frank Pasquale on bluesky

  “Time that the software deems “unproductive” could be deducted from his pay, and if a few minutes passed without him typing, the system pinged him to ask whether he had been working.”  —  nymag.com/intelligence...

• @frankpasquale Frank Pasquale on bluesky

  The threats “were particularly galling for mid-career professionals who felt their 20-year-old bosses barely understood the fields they were trying to automate.”  —  nymag.com/intelligence...