| ▲ | mycall 7 hours ago |
| It's in chicken-egg mode, where could be useful if more people and bots used it, but not there yet. |
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| ▲ | add-sub-mul-div 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Usually it would be a network effect thing but in this case from reading the article it doesn't even work right (big surprise) and the nature of the tasks are spammy (big surprise). Like a worse mechanical turk minus the determinism of the code. |
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| ▲ | mycall 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I agree. Unless they fix things, this will crash and burn, but the idea still has a future. |
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| ▲ | co_king_3 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > [it] could be useful if more people and bots used it That's a very optimistic way of looking at things! |
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| ▲ | tinfoilhatter 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Cannot fathom how being slaves for AI agents translates to usefulness. |
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| ▲ | a4isms 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The term of art for this is becoming a "Reverse Centaur:" A “centaur” is a human being who is assisted by a machine (a human head on a strong and tireless body). A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant (a frail and vulnerable person being puppeteered by an uncaring, relentless machine). https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11... | | |
| ▲ | bell-cot 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | What's the term if your car is an old clunker, and you're forever having to tinker to keep it running you around town? | | |
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| ▲ | sheikhnbake 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | We're acclimating ourselves to the inevitable service to our future AI overlords | |
| ▲ | co_king_3 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I agree that the deal the site proposes is essentially being a slave to an AI agent. | | |
| ▲ | ungreased0675 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Other than the getting paid part. Let’s not trivialize slavery by making it equivalent to gig work. | | |
| ▲ | owebmaster 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's definitely not trivializing. Algorithmic slavery should be a thing and discussed, it's real slavery. |
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