A Boring Dystopia

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AI behavioral analysis on factory workers, every step is monitored including attention detection from facial expressions (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 week ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Robot cost money for maintenance, fuel, and upgrades. Humans take care of all of that themselves and can be made to work harder (upgrade performance) without expensive software, just cheap abuse.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Robots are expensive to buy, program, and set up. Energy cost and maintenance is cheap.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

Still more expensive than a human counterpart, which is the point.