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The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
According to this reader, the AI cameras didn't work any better than Tesla's full-self driving mode, and had to be backstopped by a minimum of three camera operators in an Indian call center, "so that there could be a quorum system for deciding on a customer's activity – three autopilots good, two autopilots bad."
Pluralistic: Three AI Insights for Hard-Charging, Future-Oriented Smartypantses
Cory Doctorow
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