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Heard a story a while back on NPR about how Youtube is outsourcing the trauma of moderating terrible content to the Philippines. It was a glimpse into a world I

• mirimir 7y ago
  Maybe that's just a convenient source of desperately poor Catholic workers. But I wonder, maybe they could recruit people who enjoyed viewing horrible stuff. At least, if they were self-aware enough to know that the stuff they liked was horrible.
  • netsharc 7y ago
    To further that thought, they can just wire up sensors to these people's brains, and flash the images for then to see. If the sensors notice arousal: mark photo as explicit. In the dystopian future, they're going to not have enough psychopaths for this kind of work, so they're going to wire up prisoners in lawless parts of the world and modify the software to detect distress... 20 hours a day, 7 days a week.
    • fiblye 7y ago
      This sounds horrific, but realistic. We already have prisoners making license plates as slave labor. All it takes is a couple congressmen in the pockets of a big social network to make it mandatory for “rehabilitation” to moderate social networks.
    • mirimir 7y ago
      In one of Hannu Rajaniemi's dystopian futures, people sell "API access" to their brains. And ultimately, after uploading, are sold as digital slaves. Used as components of Kubernetes-like clusters.