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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (12 children)

If Ai stands for "Absent indian" what does agi stand for?

edit: my brain didn't process the title properly.

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

"A Guy Instead", it's in the title?

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alternatively, "A Guy (from) India".

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

A Group of Indians

That's called a call center

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

for the same reasons as this, not really a thing I'd post, even in jest

the existence of these callcenters (often in india, but hardly only there - much of africa is beset by the same problem) is an outright fucking feature of the years-long capitalist market optimisation hell-loop. and as annoying as their "output" (for lack of a better word) may be in one's daily life, at the end of the day it's still a bunch of people at the bottom rung getting fucked

(e: I mention "callcenters" but "AI support centers"/"data review"/"remote shoppers"/.... - it's all the same fucking exploitation-offshoring dynamic)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 11 hours ago

Yes, exactly. The same capitalist/colonialist/imperialist forces that exploit the global south are the same that want AI to automate everyone into abject poverty. We can do better and show class solidarity by not perpetuating these racist stereotypes.

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