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If World ID becomes one of Reddit’s third-party providers, it would be good news for Tools for Humanity, which was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

What the actual fuck.

Seriously how on Earth is that supposed to work?

Ai is both a scam and going to take everyone’s jobs, depending on who you talk to.

How much ever do you put into changing gear. It really shouldn’t be that difficult are you definitely pressing the clutch down?

It’s getting more efficient by the day. They used to have to launch it into the air before it had blow up. This way it saves time

I’ve often thought that worker cooperative call centres should be a thing. The people who manage call centres barely understand the contract because inevitably they higher management from outside of the company, since no one on the phones could possibly be management material.

It would probably make quite a lot of money because one of the biggest complaints that companies have about their third party call centres is inefficiencies. Even if the bosses wanted to fix the inefficiencies they can’t because they don’t understand the contract at a base enough level. In a workers cooperative that wouldn’t be an issue since the workers would understand the contract.

Unfortunately it probably would face the issue that all new starts in the industry make, in that most businesses are locked into multi-year contracts with their call centre providers and can’t just swap to a new provider whenever they want. So you’d have to time its startup very precisely as a big company came to the end of its contract, or you’d probably have to get some clients on board before you even started.

That right there is the problem with this discussion. They’re not even remotely similar technologies.

The ones doing protein folding are specialised limited capability AI. They are absolutely useful and very good at their jobs, but they are not the kind of AI that the public are using.

The public are using large language models and Diffusion-Based image generators. Not the narrow AI that you’re talking about.

We used to have a poster up at work in the IT room that had a picture of a person scratching their heads and looking blankly at their laptop and the text “I’ve tried nothing, and I’m all out of ideas”.

Some people have zero troubleshooting skills and don’t even try. Their immediate reaction is to try and make it someone else’s problem.

The EU like any large government is filled with people of varying quality. Some of them are absolutely amazing at their jobs and some of them can barely operate at light switches.

Normally whenever some dumb tech related regulation comes in you usually find it’s being pushed by the idiots. You can usually tell by reading the text of the legislation and by the end of it you will have come up with about 300 problems.

A good example of this is reading the Tracking Cookies legislation (bad) and the GDPR legislation (good), the difference in the size of the text of the bill is visually apparent.

The two aren’t equivalent. One of them is an actual proven technology that definitively exists, the other one is still to prove itself.