Renewed Resistance@renewedresistance@channel.org
Ha!
Renewed Resistance@renewedresistance@channel.org
Tor Lillqvist@tml@mementomori.social
@renewedresistance@channel.org No, I am not going to like or share en AI-generated illustration.
vic-tor-menta@vic_101@neopaquita.es
@tml@mementomori.social @renewedresistance@channel.org
The use of #AI to generate illustrations has very serious moral implications: inhumane working conditions in data centers in central Africa, theft of intellectual property for program training, support for a network of companies that promote racism and anti-LGBTQ+ policies in their corporate culture, the ecological disaster created by computer power usage and its cooling systems, and the loss of jobs for artists who need to charge for their art 
Tor Lillqvist@tml@mementomori.social
@vic_101@neopaquita.es Sorry, what data centres in Central Africa are you talking about?
vic-tor-menta@vic_101@neopaquita.es
@tml@mementomori.social
this is just one of many headlines
https://theconversation.com/africas-data-workers-are-being-exploited-by-foreign-tech-firms-4-ways-to-protect-them-252957
Tor Lillqvist@tml@mementomori.social
@vic_101@neopaquita.es Yes, but that is not related to data centres. You know what a data centre is, do you? It is not just any workplace where people use computers.
vic-tor-menta@vic_101@neopaquita.es
@tml@mementomori.social
Oh no! I fell into the Twitter troll's trap! Something made me suspicious when you asked for my forgiveness, but I wanted to trust that your question was honest and not a passive-aggressive ploy designed to make you feel superior. It's okay, my mistake.
Of course you are wrong about data centers. At least check your spelling, "centres" is wrong.
Tor Lillqvist@tml@mementomori.social
@vic_101@neopaquita.es OK so you can't explain how that very real problem that I obviously know of is related to data centres. And instead of elaborating on the actual discussion, you start calling me a troll. That is Twitteresque behaviour, sorry.
You apparently don't realise that I am on your side, broadly speaking. I just don't like using incorrect or misleading argumentation.
The data workers described in that article don't work in data centres. They work in offices. And no doubt are exploited. One type of job that is very bad for your mental health is content moderation, spending your work day looking through horribly violent content and deciding what goes against the standards of the company in question. Such jobs indeed often has been outsourced to cheap labour in third-world countries.
But still, data centres are not related to that. At least not the huge kind of data centres that are discussed so much nowadays in relation to the AI hype.
("Centre" is the spelling used in British English, which is what people who don't live in the US usually use.)
vic-tor-menta@vic_101@neopaquita.es
@tml@mementomori.social
So your whole argument is centered on your definition of a data center.
What word should I use instead?
Tor Lillqvist@tml@mementomori.social
@vic_101@neopaquita.es Yes, that was literally the detail that I wanted to point out, that talking about "data centers in central Africa" is misleading.
Just say "inhumane work performed by content moderators in Africa", for instance? Why the need to specify "Central" Africa? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Africa
For instance Kenya is not usually counted as being in Central Africa, and the work done by content moderators in Kenya has been much in the news lately: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/18/why-former-facebook-moderators-in-kenya-are-taking-legal-action