Invisible #TikTok #Workers’ #Exploitative Conditions
https://socialistplanningbeyondcapitalism.org/invisible-tiktok-workers-exploitative-conditions/
#exploitative
@rightardia
That's not a new issue. The poisonous concept of "good" and "bad" minorities and immigrants has been around for a long time.
#racist #Divisive #exploitative don't begin to say enough about the evils of that framing.
How #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump turns a #profit on #politicalviolence
Trump is a #hatemerchant. As part of their #opportunistic and #exploitative nature, Trump, his #propagandists and other #agents are #trafficking in #violence and #chaos. This is central to Trump’s #fascism, #demagoguery, #politicalopportunism, and #feral #politics.
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/23/how-donald-turns-a-profit-on-political-violence/
I just realized that a lot of the same people complaining about #AI were the same people that were complaining about #Uber.
Uber is not your friend, but the #taxi companies also weren't your friend.
AI is not your friend, but #ContentMills are also not your friend.
What you are is an #ignorant #technophobe, not even able to be elevated to #luddite.
#Luddites knew exactly how their machines worked, and broke them because the machines weren't working for them.
The critique of Uber was stanning for #exploitative #Rentier #Capitalist who'd already so thoroughly engaged in #RegulatoryCapture that their #monopoly had become part of the background.
@samhenrigold I think both are key:
- If #ConsumerProtection means certain kinds of #exploitative #Apps like #PayToLoose aka. "#NotLegallyGambling" games get yeeted out of the #EU, that's a necessary and vital step...
Just like a lot of #US Services have already been unavailable for refusing to comply with laws (i.e. #CashApp & #Venmo don't comply with #KYC & #AML) and a lot of things are banned in the #USA under the veil of "#ConsumerProtection (i.e. #KinderSurprise, unwashed eggs & non-chlorinated chicken despite being scientifically better) ...
- #TechLiteracy & #MediaLiteracy OFC need to be taught but that will require at least 25+ years until we even have capacities built to stop #Enshittification - not reverse the already #enshittified products and services back into an acceptable state!
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Everything we do is being used to feed AI models. From the way we write our blog posts, to the pictures we take, and even the way we talk to each other. Everything is being hoovered up, and being turned into a model.
The result of this is that if we share content to websites we have to see whether they have an AI learning clause. Usually these clauses are opt out rather than opt in. If you are not attentive your content will be hoovered up, and eventually regurgitated by AI.
The problem isn’t that AI models are being fed. The problem is that AI models are being fed without our consent, and without us benefiting from what we have personally contributed.
I’m writing about it today because of [this article](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/stack-overflow-users-sabotage-their-posts-after-openai-deal/). It makes sense for us to remove our content from such sites. Not only was Eyeem bought by a company that wants to use photos to teach an AI model but it wants to charge users for using the site that will expoit their intellectual property. The same is true of WordPress. You will pay for these features and we will ingest your content into our model and then we will monetise it.
They’re being paid twice. First by the people they’re abusing, and a second time by the people who want to use AI generated content. We can opt out, but we’re at a stage where we would have to opt out of being online. Every site is training AI models on us.
## The Case For Self-Hosting
I would have written this post earlier but I had broken Linux yet again and had to migrate from the install I damaged to a tidy one. In the process I was able to migrate Immich from one card to the next using grsync.
I am improving. In the past if something broke I would have just started from scratch. This time I copied some files from one card to the other, and I migrated other data using grsync.
The most reliable of feeding “our own” AI models is to self-host on Immich, Nextcloud and Photoprism just to use three examples.
We could even two lighter instances of LLMs but that’s more geeky and more involved. With Immich, Nextcloud and Photoprism we can keep doing things the habitual way.
## And Finally.
If Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and others gave back to their community members, rather than to shareholders there would be less of a backlash. As I have said since 2006 or 2007, online communities have value because of their users, and users should get something back from those that want to monetise the communities.
At the time I said “think of ROI for the users, not just PR firms and investors”. Two decades later the same problem is still around.
https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/feeding-ai-via-communities/
enables them to display their #NaturalBehaviours. It is in direct contradiction with the #AnimalWelfareAct 2006 to not allow animals to carry out these behaviours, and a tragically #cruel thing to do.
#Gressingham, a so-called "local boys and a family business", is #industrial in size. Each duck becomes a mere statistic in this gross #exploitative system and not an individual who has needs. We witnessed eye and nasal infections, blindness, severe lameness, twisted feet and bent necks.
4/16
LRT: Now just imagine what the world would be like if all the young programmers who went to work at #exploitative companies like Google in the hopes of attaining high incomes (if not outright unimaginable wealth) instead applied their talents to #technologies that allow people to take control of their own data.
Like, seriously, it's 2023, so why is it still so difficult for people to #selfhost #email without being #IT experts, themselves? Because #programmers don't give a fuck about you.
One of the most #thankless, #unpaid, #unaccounted, and #exploitative care work one partakes, is cleaning an #entitled bourgeoisie indoor cat's litter tray. 😵🙀
Especially as it sits opposite you, cleaning its paws, expecting efficiency.
#TikTok's ‘Soft White Underbelly’ is being called ‘#exploitative’
The #account was called 'one of the most #problematic #channels on the #Internet by #Bob the #DragQueen.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Media #SocialMedia #Tiktok #Representation #Culture
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/soft-white-underbelly-tiktok/
" investigate possible negative consequences of being a loyal #employee in the #workplace. Instead of protecting or rewarding them, loyal employees are selectively and ironically targeted by managers for #exploitative practices...bidirectional causal links between loyalty and exploitation have the potential to create a vicious circle of suffering"
Oh, the familiarity...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103122001615#preview-section-abstract
#News flash #Woolies - customers don’t want to be falsely #imprisoned in your self serve checkouts!
Isn’t it enough forcing ppl into self-serve while Woolies & #Coles have made #exploitative #profits?
Some #customers have taken the matter into their own hands today.
#SmashTheGates
https://x.com/akawaca/status/1706550558914719988?s=46&t=k6_56jT1PJJVWk5_WLRUqQ
https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/16572?single
#ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #australia #classwar #eattherich #capitalism #fascism #supermarket
The pandemic showed how callous, unequal, and ineffective American health care can be- The Nation by Gregg Gonsalves
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sandro-galea-public-health-reason/
Poverty is manufactured: The well-off and with #predatory #elites, who enact #extractive and #exploitative policies to #CreatePoverty and #entrench it, in America, across the world, and across history.
Read my ★ review of "The Whale," the most depressing, exploitative, unintentionally hilarious piece of Oscarbait in the history of depressing, exploitative, unintentionally hilarious Oscarbait. Bonus MST3K points for Darren Aronofsky adding a horror-movie soundtrack every time Brendan Fraser opened a candy bar! https://boxd.it/3ULBIr
#review #film #movie #TheWhale #DarrenAronofsky #BrendanFraser #Oscarbait #terrible #pretentious #exploitative #manipulative #dreary #depressing #ArtsyFartsy
⚖️ Every February 20th, #WorldDayOfSocialJustice is celebrated.
🚰 In January, we released our months-long #investigation into the #socialinjustices faced by #drought-stricken #farmers in #Bangladesh, at the hands of #exploitative ‘water lords’.
💧 "They will force you to buy water for low-lying land if you ask for water for a high-land paddy field."
💰Tubewell owners control the lives of millions of marginal farmers in Bangladesh by charging aggressive prices for water.
@jens
Yes, Mozilla were labelled Internet Villain of 2019 in the UK for sending ppl direct to CloudFlare (and maybe for related reasons).
The clearnet is totally #exploitative. No matter how we look at it.
Onion maximalism all the way to the banks.
The association of #universities in the #Netherlands @KNAW is setting up its own #instance for #students and staff. Through its move from Twitter to Mastodon, the #connected world of #academia has become a little less #exploitative and more #cooperative.
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Blog version of this thread: https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2023/01/25/a-connected-world-of-academics-in-the-fediverse/
@mekkaokereke
What is missing in this discussion is #prevention is greater than cure? Don't make a people sick, obese, inflamed, and #addicted.
Unfortunately, the #immigration system into so-called developed nations is intensely #exploitative. Most would not choose to leave their child (for many years if not decades) to be placed into #servitude.
Also many conflicts are cynically engineered to produce #displacement, #derascination and #refugees.
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