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[–] [email protected] 127 points 6 days ago (4 children)

AI stands for "actually indians"?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Always Infosys

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

All Indians.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm waiting for "generalized" actually Indians

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 days ago

What do you mean the new llm I invested in is just 700 Indians in a trench coat?!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Welcome back to tonight's episode of "Is it AI or 700 Indian Engineers!!" 👏🏾👏🏾 👏🏾

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

I'm picturing a room of people with protractors ray tracing Doom.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Crazy that 700 professionals in india is cheaper than a compute/data centre.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 days ago (6 children)

700 professionals in India probably make more coherent software than AI.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

On the internet no one knows you are 700 Indian engineers.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 6 days ago (4 children)

What’s next? Am I going to find out my AI girlfriend is actually a real woman? Smh my head, can’t trust anything these days

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, it is a teenage boy from Mombasa.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh my god I miss peak dogelore so much. I wasted so much time making those memes, and I miss it 😢

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

It was a simpler time 🥲

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

but it turns out all that cash was going toward a workforce of over 700 Indian engineers, rather than an AI.

I doubt much of that cash was going to their workforce. Should have though.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago

in a trench coat

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Next I'm going to find out ChatGPT is 700 thousand Indians typing really fast.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

It would save electricity

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

That would explain why it sometimes gets sluggish!

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hope this isn't part of a larger trend of human labor being devalued because companies pretend it's just machine labor. I hope that's literally impossible.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (2 children)

A lot of companies have been doing this for years. AWS literally sells this as a service: https://www.mturk.com/

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Who names this shit? I want to have a serious talk with their mother.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Next do "self driving cars"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

You mean the 40 horsepower is actually 40 Indians under the hood??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Check the trunk for an Indian guy with a street map.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

reminds me of the time when something with Amazon was Indian employees

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

They should have had 701

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

"Sachin! Quick, look up the best way to impress a first date who is vegetarian!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I don't even know what to say. How can you make jokes when reality already is making them for you? Have we finally entered The Onion Timeline?

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