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.

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

'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

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 🤮

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-undersea-cables-internet-connectivity-india/

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

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).

@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. 🫠