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> He claims he was scarred by the content he had to look at, but Americans review objectionable social media content too (or at least used to.)

I don't find it hard to believe that watching mutilations, rapes and and murders all day long will take its toll. It sounds like you do. American moderators have suffered too. https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/12/21255870/facebook-content...

> Since these workers are not indentured serfs, we should generally rely on their ability to switch jobs.

So they can be replaced by those with fewer career choices?

> Maybe you've been less exposed to reports of what life is like in the developing world than I have? Here's something that was on PBS the other day

So because children are dying while mining for gold in the Philippines, we should be quiet about a traumatized AI workforce in Africa? I do not buy this reasoning.

> I think we should avoid knee-jerk reactions against AI

It's not just knee jerks though. I'd wager PSTD is real. The insane energy use is definitely real and the hallucinations are too real. The predictions for constant future improvements are however highly questionable. Critique where critique is due.

The valley hype machine could possibly be racing towards the same cliff as it did with the metaverse and NFTs not long ago.




> So they can be replaced by those with fewer career choices?

By those less squeamish.

> we should be quiet

This is a strawman since that's not what I said.

> traumatized AI workforce

We only have data points on a few plaintiffs and plaintiff-adjacent workers, hardly enough to assume they're necessarily more than a drop in the workforce bucket.

Here's a show full of shittier US jobs like noodling: https://go.discovery.com/show/dirty-jobs-discovery-atve-us

> hallucinations are too real

> metaverse and NFTs

It sounds like you have an axe to grind with the Valley and tech in general.




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