The Human Watch vs AI
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@HumanWatchVsAI
Exposing AI’s societal harms, such as job losses, erosion of freedoms, and ideological lies. Human dignity is not for sale.
🇮🇳 AI DATA RACE: Workers in Indian factories started to wear cameras on their heads, to film their motions so robots can be trained on these videos. Big robot companies will train their humanoid robots, on movement data from Indian sweatshops … Wild 1/
**DOW CHEMICAL JUST SLAUGHTERED 4,500 WORKERS WHILE PROMISING SHAREHOLDERS "AT LEAST $2 BILLION IN ADDITIONAL EARNINGS" FROM THE BLOOD** 13% of their entire workforce disappeared this week Not because they're losing money. Because killing jobs makes the stock price go up. CEO Jim Fitterling told analysts the cuts will "unlock significant value" while chemical engineers with 15 years experience got escorted out by security I'm hearing the severance packages are fucking brutal. 4 weeks for people who've been there a decade. Sources saying they're moving half the R&D operations to India where PhDs work for $18k annually Dow posted $45 billion in revenue last year but apparently paying American chemists is "inefficient resource allocation" The company that literally invented Agent Orange is now gassing their own workforce These are people who make the polymers in your phone. The chemicals in your water treatment. The compounds that keep airplanes from falling out of the sky. But Jim needs his $2 billion so shareholders can buy more boats Meanwhile every chemical engineering program in the country is telling kids "STEM is recession-proof" The math is simple: 4,500 families destroyed = $444,444 in "additional earnings" per severed head If you work anywhere that makes anything physical, you're next The entire manufacturing knowledge base of America is being sold to the lowest bidder while executives count their options
If this is true, Satya Nadella made a really huge mistake by protecting Sam Altman?
Followers: I'm working on an effortpost/blog/long thread/ about the evolutionary psychology of how male aggressive instincts get sublimated into creative musical competition in 'loopstation beatbox battles'. Do you have any idea what 'loopstation beatbox battles' are?
