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No, this framing is exactly right. It highlights how Y Combinator and tech companies are complicit in the inhumane conditions of sweatshops. You don't get to c
by madeofpalk 2y ago
No, this framing is exactly right. It highlights how Y Combinator and tech companies are complicit in the inhumane conditions of sweatshops.
You don't get to create this product and then absolve yourself of its negative impact of it.
- tqi 2y agoBut that's my point - Y Combinator and tech companies are complicit in the inhumane conditions of sweatshops, the how is irrelevant to why it is bad. But framing it as a story about "AI" and "machine vision" just causes people to argue about the technology. [1] Y Combinator supports an AI startup that's pitching granular machine vision surveillance of factory workers.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago> But framing it as a story about "AI" and "machine vision" just causes people to argue about the technology. It's relevant because this furthers this idea that current early AI technology is not about making the world a better plance and is instead used to accelerate the worst aspects of humanity. Sadly, the abuse of workers is not a novel idea. So the conversation should be more towards how we establish an ethical attitude towards how we make use of LLM's
- tqi 2y ago> It's relevant because this furthers this idea that current early AI technology is not about making the world a better plance and is instead used to accelerate the worst aspects of humanity. Can't it be about both?