Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation
FireWire400@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why not just, you know, employ an actual human to do your chores in the first place? It’ll almost certainly be a lot cheaper than this clanker…
Besides, there’s no guarantee that those teleoperators won’t be sweatshop workers.
Because this is much easier to exploit than people you have to pay fairly. Sad, but very true.
Like everything else in America the value of capital is the only thing that matters! See the healthcare system as it is right now if you need proof of that.
I agree on the slave front. If it was going to be any slavery going on it better be good old-fashioned analogue slavery.
I appreciate the thought but which would you choose:
Full time minimum wage US worker at $7¼/hr or $15,080/yr vs $20,000 one time purchase?
I agree with you that these things are likely underpaid labor (maybe including literal slavery, or job conditions close enough to count anyways), but I don’t think your argument is going to be convincing to anyone actually considering getting one.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
AI exists to isolate the worker from their labor, and for people in power to avoid accountability by creating new layers of plausible deniability.