AI and artificial butter parallels 🧈🤯
@nkb draws parallels between the rise of artificial butter (margarine) in the early 20th century and Artificial Intelligence today.
Just as 1900s entrepreneurs used "cutting-edge" organic chemistry to turn raw materials from the Global South (oil palms, coconuts) into an ersatz product, today’s AI companies rely on labor from the same regions to label data and produce digital "ersatz" content.
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https://automatedsociety.algorithmwatch.org
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