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Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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zelphirkalt wrote: post #15
nicman23 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol what. you are getting paying it is not slavery

Some people are forced to work in places, which are dehumanizing through work conditions, whether you get paid for it or not doesn't necessarily tell you much. Of course this is not the case for Mete employees, who should have an easy time finding other employment. But these trends are not limited to Meta. They might find application in some shithole of a badly paid job somewhere, where people have only the choice be…

yea but not software developers lets be real

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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Post by nicman23 »

micik wrote: post #84
nicman23 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol what. you are getting paying it is not slavery

Because slaves were not getting paid? Not only were they getting paid, slavery in the Roman Empire involved a bidirectional responsibility. In times of economic hardship and downturn, the owner was required to look after the slave. No kicking to the curb allowed. Slaves were able to buy themselves out and the list of former slaves who became magnates and even politically influential at the highest level was indeed lo…

tl;dr we are talking about ~ 80K + a year job my man

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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Post by gamerslexus »

vortegne wrote: post #88
gamerslexus wrote: post #7

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> This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. Interesting phrasing. So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something? Is there a reason you didn't go with > No subsection of humanity should be dictating anything and yet these techbros always do.

> Is there a reason you didn't go with No and you are being intentionally obtuse for some reason.

It was a rhetorical question because obviously there was a reason. The question is whether you didn't put much thought into what you write or it was a Freudian slip. "No" would be your reply in either case.

Re: Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their

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Post by wolfie69 »

yubblegum wrote: post #16

Oddly enough was watching Colossus: The Forbin Project . One of those mid 70s scifi flicks. At some point, their AI demanded that its creator be under 24/7 audio-visiual surveillance (including bathroom time, yes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project p.s. was just reading the wiki plot summary and lol'ing at this bit: " Colossus has the responsible programmers summarily executed outside their w…

That's one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies. Alot of movies after that ripped off the plot of a massive supercomputer taking over humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t46Kjy-IJpY

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Post by codeulike »

brycewray wrote: post #86
ceejayoz wrote: post #31

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Yeah, but usually folks tweak to paraphrase, instead of lopping off. I'd have gone with "Meta employees up in arms over mandatory program to train AI on their keystrokes".

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