Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by vladTheInhaler on Monday July 06, 2020 @06:56PM (#23753720)

There is a very interesting and creepy story about this called The Gig Economy [1]. Machines end up sending gig workers to do inane tasks, like photographing a certain building at a particular time, to take advantage of bizarre arbitrage opportunities too complicated for a human to notice. Eventually, everyone is just a peripheral of this enormous, inscrutable system skimming money off the real economy.

[1] https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-eco...

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Re:Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory by matthewfcarlson on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:35PM (#23761767)

Reminds me of a short run podcast called The Program (https://programaudioseries.com/). It's a historical documentary about the rise of "The Program" which is basically an AI directed gig economy becoming the economy. It asks people to do strange things for seemingly arbitrary reasons but it makes sense when you realize what all it is doing.

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