Translation: someone with a lot of illegal money is buying stupid jobs like ‘counting pigeons’ on a marketplace, but the person doing the work is a different account owned by the same person.
This is how money laundering works.
Dirty money in, bullshit job in the middle, clean money out.
I mean, crypto does the job cleaner and faster. Stablecoins, in particular, are fantastic at spin-cycling dirty cash. Hell, half the time the money never gets “dirty” to begin with, since there’s no real tangible relationship between the transaction and the crime.
I looked at the site. Its just Fiverr, but without all the moderation/features that make the site usable, and with AI in the name. The majority of the listings were either obvious scams or were spam. Even those that weren’t were pretty consistantly paying under $10 an hour. Beyond that, only one or two had anything to do with AI.
Edit: actually, Fiverr is more a marketplace for those hiring. This is bounties, so its closer to Craigslist - esspecially given the lack of moderation or verification.
It’s probably a system for laundering money, then.
Working for an unfeeling entity that only cares about profits and doesn’t care about you.
Sounds like working for any large corporation but with better pay.
$30 an hour to poison their data while I’m doing my actual job sounds tight to me idk bruh
They can fire me but they can’t not pay me.
Wanna bet?
Yes. I will absolutely take you on that bet. Will you do crypto? I’d prefer Monero. I will provide wallet address and receipts.
I will happily take your money on top of theirs.
Let’s say 7:10 dollar for dollar. Will you match every dollar I successfully earn 7:1? I’ll pay you 10x what I am owed if I am not paid what owed for my work.
To be clear, if I need to sue to get this income, it may take as long as 36 months in extreme circumstances.
Something tells me you won’t take this bet.
Hmm. Chat, what is the ratio of wage theft lawsuits losses to actual wins? How many wins were actually paid in a timely manner?
_https://www.nelp.org/app/uploads/2023/07/Workers-Lose-Billions-Unpaid-Wages-Every-Year.pdf_
Joke’s on them… even if they don’t pay it’s not like I valued the time I spent on it anyway.
And I certainly didn’t do a good job.
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Sounds like you won’t take the bet.
They pay you in AI dollars.
What if the AI are better employers than capitalists and we just end up working for them?
Have you read “The Culture”? Because handing over power to the AI Minds is how you get utopian hedonistic gay space socialism.
Do you want utopian hedonistic gay space socialism?
I fucking do.
I always thought that the AI Minds were just his version of benevolent god slaves, in similar fashion the Superman is a bgs in the mainstream culture.
The gay is optional in The Culture (and sex changes at will), so yeah, I’m in.
Humans have managed to kill millions of each other and start a mass extinction. I’m happy to give the machines a chance.
At the moment, they want to start nuclear war. Maybe we need to convince them otherwise, before we consider “giving the machines a chance.”
Destroying all nuclear weapons is definitely a prerequisite.
Then you’re just left with genocide, like AI did in Gaza
At this point I want a nuclear war. At least I won’t have to wake up early tomorrow.
It’s more humane than the overcomplicated shit the Epstein Island people want. Why don’t they start already? Cmon Ukraine, get to Moscow…
Maybe we can just nuke Chicago. Nothing of value would be lost.
Maybe it’s just me but in this age of MAGA proposing attacking blue urban areas, I find this joke less funny. :/ Sorry.
I dont care much for the gay part, but as long as it is voluntary i’m game
(Needs some actual fucking ai tho, not probability guessing machines)
Fucking AI? I think pornhub has that…
I get most of what you’re saying…but what’s the space part? I like living on ground. I mean, I’m not opposed to a new planet. We could travel there. But I’d like to live on a planet.
The ‘space’ part is just what happens in “The Culture” book series. They tend to stick to gigantic ships or space stations that have ecosystems, mountain ranges, and seas.
Though really it’d be classified as more anarcho-socialism I suppose.
I’m with you, Earth is better than we deserve and we should be focused on the problems we have here.
we should be focused on the problems we have here.
Such as restoring earths beauty. There is ZERO reason why something absurd like 40% of America is just…parking lots. Or abandoned warehouses. Or abandoned malls.
This may surprise most people, but, this country is naturally beautiful! And it can be again!
We just gotta kick this bad habit we’ve had for 200+ years of forced slavery, and profit chasing.
Oh, and also, no more pedophile presidents.
Why single out presidents, though? I mean, you had me at "no more pedophile"s 😅🤌🏼
Good point. Although, I’m unclear why you ended it with the anal fisting emoji…
something absurd like 40% of America is just…parking lots
I think you might have a fever? Or dreamed that up.
Plenty of ground on a culture ship. Many of them are Big.
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Sounds like Daemon (2006) by Daniel Suarez in which a decision tree established and runs a criminal organization to parasitize then displace nation-states by hiring talented people disaffected by corrupt governments.
That sounds good, then.
If I could throw some monero at some people to fab a swarm of drones to disable flock cameras, I would.
Suarez rightfully notes that daemon had a better grasp on security
TIL he’s on mastodon. Of course.
$30 an hour? uhh… Where do they offer these jobs again?
Just hit the big button marked “I’m a sucker who is about to get stiffed at the end of my shift”.
Halfway to the plot of Eagle Eye
This is so, so cursed
Computer, end program.
Computer, exit.
…
*fuck*
I can’t do that, Hal.
Not you too, Dave…
I don’t know anything about the writer, but this sure reads like the machine is doing more good than bad. Even touting that human jobs are being created, as if counting pigeons for an afternoon is sufficient to make up for having been replaced at the grocers by a machine.
Also, wouldn’t the machine needing to know how many pigeons you saw only need to know that because some other person asked it? In effect, isn’t this just ‘middle-machining’ a gig job between two people?
I half want to give it a go and just provide wrong results from my couch, collecting some of those sweet VC bucks.
Counting pigeons sounds nice. Out in nature, lots of fresh air, and you can afford food because you’re making twice what you make at the grocer.
Oh sure, I’d be happy as a peach counting pigeons for an afternoon. Trouble is it’s only for an afternoon where the grocer had me on a two week schedule.
Then again, might not be hired to count pigeons again when I put twelve million pigeons on my tps report haha.
Do you want to eat or do you want to afford rent next month? Maybe the machine has more pigeons to count.
Bring a second set of clothes and a hat.
How is the AI actually paying the human? Last I heard AI’s lack you know, money
Agents my dude. Idiots let the AI into their Venmo and shit.
What if the AI devops have actually been exposing all these vulns on purpose
I heard corporations are throwing trillions of dollars into AI.
And plus Mark Zuckerberg is rich. We can all agree that Mark Zuckerberg is AI, right?
I think he’s a lizard person, maybe a lizard person AI?
Where are they getting real money to pay people?
Based on the mathematical capabilities of most LLMs I know, I can just fudge the numbers by an order of magnitude and the boss won’t know the difference.
There is an interesting video on this by Upper Echelon.
Well researched video.
So you are hiring people to to odd/temp jobs. Why does ai need to be involved here?
To make people not question the more odd jobs.
Profit
Look! Another FLOC of door knobs! No, definetly not a pigeon! That’s a door knob!
When chatbots die away they will qualify for government subsidies by showing the employees as excuse.
