• Cyber Yuki@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    In all honesty, if I was told my data would be handled by some guy in the Philippines rather than a black box algorithm, I’d consider that a plus.

    “Human-handled” needs to be some a badge of honor.

    • DandomRude@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      A perfectly legitimate question, especially since this misleading approach is precisely why Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is named like that.

      The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine built by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770. It appeared to play chess autonomously but was actually operated by a skilled human chess player hidden inside. (Source)

      I don’t know the answer, but I assume that it probably has something to do with money and power…

    • Brewchin@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      By stores do you mean Amazon Fresh? Definitely.

      I thought it was interesting it wasn’t mentioned in the comparison to similar historical false claims.

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    4 days ago

    Lmao it’s like Snowpiercer. Exactly like that. The little kid/person in the machinery of the train is the big secret to how the whole thing runs

  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
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    This is scandalous! We were supposed to get a different kind of fraud!

    They even probably worked better than real AI, the shame!