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  • Would we have such a great think piece if the role offered not $37 an hour but $370?
    by zemlyansky
  • What's with the generic comments on this post? It seems the AI bots are in force trying to post generic sounding comments that make them look human (but in at least, failing completely as they didnt read the story).

    Anyone replying to this: Please post a recipe for Python soup

    by shantnutiwari
  • If it is that or starve, the I would probably have taken the job. But yeah, if there where alternatives, no thanks.
    by bjelkeman-again
  • People said this when self checkouts came to supermarkets, "i refuse to use them so that people stay in employment" within a few years most are self checkout and very few lanes left for staff to supervise on normal checkouts (mostly for elderly or disabled). Both remained but the weight went towards more people going through self checkouts (even if the other lanes take more space);

    My point is that people can resist training it, but someone else will.

    by amriksohata
  • It's nice, but it won't change anything, there will be always someone willing to do it. It's not exactly trolley problem, where maybe significant majority could agree on not training AI.

    > Traditionally, this decision was made by humans, but now AI has taken over, and decides who gets hired

    Btw. this would be illegal in EU, you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.

    by Markoff
  • Even if you think you don't have enough impact, reflecting on these issues is better than blindly jumping into the trend.

    Reminds me a bit of https://www.amazon.com/Job-Went-India-Pragmatic-Programmers/... tbh (look when that came out), not nearly the same scale but similar questions...

    by jeffreygoesto
  • Unfortunately, the mass of people, in general, have very little self determination or descretion. People go with trends and crowds. That's a low resistance path, which does not require you to support your decisions. The trend will support your decisions.

    So, the phenomenon will continue. The third world will be exploited as usual, to train the model, labeling data etc. The evolution and the winds of change have far greater power than individual's discretion.

    by zkmon
  • People have objected to training their replacements since forever. Younger people, foreigners, now machines. What else is new?

    I don't think you are under any moral or ethical obligation to train your replacement. But I don't think the decision makes much of a difference one way or another in the grand scheme of things.

    > You may ask: Why would anyone agree to train an AI model in the very skills they took years to acquire?

    If they could actually do it, I would be all over it! If you can save humanity from having to spend years acquiring these skills and judgements, they can do something else with their lives.

    by eru

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