Following up on yesterday’s post, I came upon this:
“This is the hidden abode of automation: a globally dispersed complex of refugees, slum dwellers, and casualties of occupations, compelled through immiseration, or else law, to power the machine learning of companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon.”
~~ By Phil Jones
… you choices to support ads or not, to use platforms, or not. Real world consequences that are being glossed over with “positive languages.” Yes, AI the equation, as the creation of the image databases needed requires human eyeballs to tell us which squares have cats or crosswalks.
But I’m not criticizing AI here, it’s simply one part of the picture we find here. This is not that picture, this one is to show something pleasing to the eye, if not the heart.
Oh, and #FcukCancer while we’re at it.
Lagniappe (’cause I’m in a good mood, having come up with three new audio stems over brunch, meaning some new music is on the way)
(Medieval passage way/street here in Saint-Etienne, aka “Dog Town” — “sans chien” as the locals pronounce it.)
And if everything i working right, this will post to my Mastodon account as well… you can look for me there: @dennis_moser@mastodon.social
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