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It's in chicken-egg mode, where could be useful if more people and bots used it, but not there yet.
by mycall 8mo ago
It's in chicken-egg mode, where could be useful if more people and bots used it, but not there yet.
- co_king_3 8mo ago> [it] could be useful if more people and bots used it That's a very optimistic way of looking at things!
- tinfoilhatter 8mo agoCannot fathom how being slaves for AI agents translates to usefulness.
- sheikhnbake 8mo agoWe're acclimating ourselves to the inevitable service to our future AI overlords
- a4isms 8mo agoThe term of art for this is becoming a "Reverse Centaur:" A “centaur” is a human being who is assisted by a machine (a human head on a strong and tireless body). A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant (a frail and vulnerable person being puppeteered by an uncaring, relentless machine). https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11-vulgar-thatcherism-there-is-an-alternative-f1428b42a8fd https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11...
- bell-cot 8mo agoWhat's the term if your car is an old clunker, and you're forever having to tinker to keep it running you around town?
- mycall 8mo agoSucker?
- bell-cot 8mo agoYou don't remember this classic? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878489
- mrguyorama 8mo agoPoverty
- a4isms 8mo ago> "Starring in a very funny template joke." Alice joins a group ride. Poseur Patty greets her: "Check out my new top-of-the-line bike! It costs more than my car!!" Alice nods: "Yeah, I have a similar car."
- co_king_3 8mo agoI agree that the deal the site proposes is essentially being a slave to an AI agent.
- ungreased0675 8mo agoOther than the getting paid part. Let’s not trivialize slavery by making it equivalent to gig work.
- owebmaster 8mo agoThat's definitely not trivializing. Algorithmic slavery should be a thing and discussed, it's real slavery.
- add-sub-mul-div 8mo agoUsually it would be a network effect thing but in this case from reading the article it doesn't even work right (big surprise) and the nature of the tasks are spammy (big surprise). Like a worse mechanical turk minus the determinism of the code.
- mycall 8mo agoI agree. Unless they fix things, this will crash and burn, but the idea still has a future.