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#underclass — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. The widespread use of #ArtificialIntelligence LLMs will render a large segment of the #population illiterate and increasingly incapable of reasoning and thinking for themselves—the future social #underclass exposed to unprecedented exploitation and manipulation by the new masters of algorithms. The #enlightment era seems declining rapidly. Does anyone see the beginnings of a #luddite #resistance somewhere? Am I too #pessimistic ?

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  2. #AI Is a Lot of Work. As the technology becomes #ubiquitous, a vast #tasker #underclass is emerging and not going anywhere. #AI #learns by finding #patterns in enormous quantities of #data, but first that data has to be sorted, #tagged by people, a vast #workforce mostly hidden behind machines. It’s difficult and #repetitive work. A several-second blip of footage took eight hours to annotate, for which a college graduate in #Nairobi was paid about $10. theverge.com/features/23764584

  3. How the other half lives: Jordan Peele's US (2019) plays funny games with the socioeconomic disparities in the American dream. Screens today, 8.40pm at BFI Southbank NFT1 #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Doppelgängers #SocialDIvide #Underclass projectedfigures.com/2019/03/2