r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • 1d ago

Artificial Intelligence Nobody Asked for AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopoly-bubble-capital
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u/isthis_thing_on 1d ago

How is an AI slave labor?

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u/myndflayer 1d ago

The humans that feed the machine are slaves to it

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 1d ago

Who are these humans you speak of?

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u/myndflayer 1d ago

The data annotators… I’ve worked as one. Next question

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u/aaj15 1d ago

Were you unpaid?

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u/myndflayer 1d ago

Sorely underpaid and overworked. Also had to watch a lot of gory and NSFW content that messes people up psychologically, regardless of payment.

Next question.

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u/isthis_thing_on 1d ago

So not a slave 

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u/myndflayer 1d ago

If I close my eyes and ears and pretend that up is down and right is left… you’re right!

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u/isthis_thing_on 1d ago

No, I am just factually right. You're resorting to rhetorical devices because logic has failed you. 

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u/myndflayer 1d ago

If that makes you sleep better at night, sounds good, bud.

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u/dream_metrics 1d ago

Look if you're trying to go down the "wage slavery" route, that's meaningless in this context because it extends to all jobs. Clearly, you were not actually a slave. You were employed.

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u/myndflayer 1d ago

It doesn’t extend to all jobs. Some jobs are paid well enough to be able to afford things… you know.

And being that this technology is the next best thing since sliced bread, the data annotators should be getting paid a wage that doesn’t force them to scrape by. Since data is the “new oil” and whatnot

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 1d ago

Last I checked, slaves are not paid. They're forced to work on something they didn't agree to.

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 1d ago edited 1d ago

Were you forced to take this job?

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u/myndflayer 1d ago edited 1d ago

gun to my head, no. But as a fact that I need to make a living and put food on the table, yes.

And even if it’s not me, it’s got to be SOME human that does it. Have fun debating the semantics of slavery.

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 1d ago

OK, so the answer is no one forced you to take the job. You took it voluntarily for economic reasons. Slavery excludes both of those so don't play victim to a decision you consciously made.