#techno dystopia

[ill-fated-heideggerian]

Ungrounded part 1

A meditation on meaning in the technological wasteland of tomorrow

[prettypinkdork]

They didn’t even need to kill Gemma or the goats. They’re just doing it as a form of religious sacrifice. Maybe they were going to examine her brain but no one was preparing for an autopsy; they were preparing her grave goods.

I saw someone say that the two things insanely wealthy people want to do is become immortal or create a techno utopia. All this talk of what Lumon is up to and, horrifyingly, it’s just another case of people telling you exactly who they are; leaving us with the extraordinary task of believing them.

[pathologicallypedantic]

Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI

AI companies want you to think their AI will magically replace all those annoying human employees. In reality, AI runs on low-paid labor — l

The workers get $2/hour or less. 

The jobs are draining. Deadlines are unrealistic and punitive. Workers have mere seconds to complete complicated labeling tasks. “Honestly, it’s like modern-day slavery,” one worker told 60-Minutes. “We were walking on eggshells,” said another. 

Some workers are forced to view violent scenes of rape, murder, bestiality, and incest for hours a day.

[technoregression]

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[technoregression]

Omg! Wake up! It was just a bad dream. The tech companies took over and limited your devices to only 10 billion processes per day.

[technoregression]

Apple Watch has detected that someone near you is about to have a heart attack

You are required to do CPR or face consequences ❤️

[koffeefrkeleven]

Thoughts

Just saying, why has no one yet thought of teaching AI to match and fold socks for us?

[theendisnighdystopia]

It has begun

The sun sets, casting darkness into the vast void in the sky above. The lights of the city play vandal, illuminating the water, disrupting the stars in their deep velvet throw. A clear, crisp night that only machines like this could create clouds thick enough to ruin it, it takes a human eye to understand beauty. Cascades of smoke billow from the buildings, cars abandoned, a deep fire burns throughout apartment blocks as an attendance of lights flicker on to signify the end of days. Every computer, television, mobile phone, digital watch, camera - contain surveillance; data collection on every damn webpage, on every call and text. No secrets, not from the machines. Less fear of war, they say. Less fear of global attack, they preach. An eye for an eye? Perhaps too many eyes for us to conceive. Fed constantly on advertisements, voting campaigns, fast food gentrification - the world is at it’s knees and we are damn blind to machines. A totalitarian state controlled by mass production. Capitalist dreams masked into culture and a way of life. The end is nigh. There is no real in our subversive reality. Be on the watch, as they are watching.