In 2018, Albert Saniger launched Nate. You could buy from any shopping site — AI would figure out the site for you! Saniger raised $50 million from investors. Nate was just a front end to a call ce…
for the same reasons as this, not really a thing I’d post, even in jest
the existence of these callcenters (often in india, but hardly only there - much of africa is beset by the same problem) is an outright fucking feature of the years-long capitalist market optimisation hell-loop. and as annoying as their “output” (for lack of a better word) may be in one’s daily life, at the end of the day it’s still a bunch of people at the bottom rung getting fucked
(e: I mention “callcenters” but “AI support centers”/“data review”/“remote shoppers”/… - it’s all the same fucking exploitation-offshoring dynamic)
Yes, exactly. The same capitalist/colonialist/imperialist forces that exploit the global south are the same that want AI to automate everyone into abject poverty. We can do better and show class solidarity by not perpetuating these racist stereotypes.
“A Guy Instead”, it’s in the title?
fuck im blind.
Alternatively, “A Guy (from) India”.
@BlueMonday1984 @luciole A Group of Indians
That’s called a call center
for the same reasons as this, not really a thing I’d post, even in jest
the existence of these callcenters (often in india, but hardly only there - much of africa is beset by the same problem) is an outright fucking feature of the years-long capitalist market optimisation hell-loop. and as annoying as their “output” (for lack of a better word) may be in one’s daily life, at the end of the day it’s still a bunch of people at the bottom rung getting fucked
(e: I mention “callcenters” but “AI support centers”/“data review”/“remote shoppers”/… - it’s all the same fucking exploitation-offshoring dynamic)
Yes, exactly. The same capitalist/colonialist/imperialist forces that exploit the global south are the same that want AI to automate everyone into abject poverty. We can do better and show class solidarity by not perpetuating these racist stereotypes.