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Re:Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel... by astrange on Friday November 24, 2023 @03:10PM (#38407689)
The people working at Foxconn are doing it voluntarily because it pays better than their other alternatives. Same for Bangladesh clothing factories.
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Re:Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel... by nyc_data_geek1 on Sunday November 26, 2023 @08:58PM (#38427228)
There is voluntary, and then there is voluntary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/09/apple-a...

Why don't you ask the people who were slaving in United Fruit plantations how much corporations improved their lives? Or East India Company colony subjects?

Corporations benefit those who benefit from them, often at the expense of everyone else/extraction of the commons.

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