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My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves

Some quotes from the article:

There is something very strange about having this very intimate view into someone’s life. It feels odd to see someone’s daily drive, but it’s also an important part of correcting and refining the program.

We review about five and a half to six hours of footage per day. It can be very hard to focus. You can get in this kind of fog when you’re just watching clip after clip and it can be difficult to keep yourself sane.

Anytime you’re not clicking around in the software program, it tracks you as if you aren’t working and it basically sets off an alarm to your superiors.

These jobs sound very dystopian to me, and a bit psychopathic as well. All the movies I watched growing up about dystopian societies is reflected in what this guy says about his job.

itsathursday ,

The real future of “AI”.

Nomad ,

Link without paywall archive.is/JcJ7F

espentan ,

Holy shit. I sometimes forget just how grateful I am to not live where it’s possible/legal to treat people like this.

DudeDudenson ,

I don’t know where you live but there’s probably a bunch of call centers in your country with similar policies that are 100% compliant with the law

ASDraptor ,

They are probably not compliant at all, they just never get checked by authorities.

sunzu2 ,

Which for purposes of the "law" are the same thing lol

Ain't it grand?

ironhydroxide ,

And then when they do get checked out, the punishment is only a tiny fraction of the profits they stole.

espentan ,

I’m Norway, and yeah, I’m sure there are places that don’t abide by the law. But, I’m quite certain the kind of monitoring Tesla appears to be doing would be national news in a hurry, and something that would be cracked down on.

1984 OP ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Same in Sweden. Tesla even tried to bypass Swedish laws here and failed badly.

Buffalox ,

These jobs sound very dystopian to me,

Absolutely, this too from the article:

“Why didn’t you make any changes to the software program for 15 minutes?” You could basically get fired for spending too long in the bathroom.

This is absolutely a hell hole of a job, they 100% need a union.
Also this actively undermines quality in what they do, a requirement to make changes, may make people make changes that aren’t needed, and even possibly changes that can be detrimental to the function.

dinckelman ,

That definitely sounds like an Elon thing to say. The same dude, who demanded people print out a week worth of their commits on paper.

These people have just about zero idea about how the engineering process works, and it shows.

Murvel ,

These people have just about zero idea about how the engineering process works, and it shows.

Well, now that’s obviously not true. They wouldn’t have drivable cars if they had no idea how to engineer one…

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Any change just for the sake of change will be detrimental to the functionality. Constant change means there is never a point in time where the overall functionality can be reviewed for stability.

Plopp ,

Also this actively undermines quality in what they do, a requirement to make changes, may make people make changes that aren’t needed, and even possibly changes that can be detrimental to the function.

Indeed, but not only that. Having employees that have as their only task to spend that much time on such a mind numbing task is pretty much in itself a guarantee for poor quality work. Such work should be divided up among people who do other things as well, so that they can break the video watching up in smaller pieces to be able to remain focused and do a better job.

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