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Re:Google Search Is Dying by numpad0 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:23PM (#30349509)
Apparently, using a machine translation as a basis and working through correcting it to read or write foreign languages is a growing trend and that’s a form of computer assisted literacy if I were to guess.

Bar that, it’s humans outrunning AI in the race to the bottom with a head start. Human people can be forced to be incredibly machine like.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by technofiend on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:38PM (#30349797)
> Human people can be forced to be incredibly machine like.

Amazon has a site for humans to pick up small tasks and get paid for them called mechanical turk [1], which is a reference to a fake chess playing machine with a human inside [2]. With the great resignation and the workforce otherwise pushing for a reasonable standard of living, I'm not sure how heavily mturk is still used as depending on tasks and speed it's really sub-minimum wage work for many people. [3] But as The Atlantic article says, sometimes it's the only work people can get.

[1] https://www.mturk.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk [3] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-...

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