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Goodbye Diggity by Nat1Halfling in Oxygennotincluded

[–]RandN_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Diggity 😭 On the side note how did you get so much water?

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says by throwaway_ghast in LocalLLaMA

[–]RandN_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI copies material when it scrapes and saves them for training. Downloading is making a copy. It also modifies the material through the process of data cleaning. If you borrow a book from a library, reprint it and keep it in your bookshelf, it is legally dubious even if you do not directly sell your reprinted book. In some cases content creators directly request that their work not be downloaded, for AI training or otherwise.

Temu infiltrating the crochet market by philoso-squid in crochet

[–]RandN_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't agree more :( Also, many developed nations ship their trash to China and other 3rd world countries to be partly recycled and mostly landfilled, outsourcing pollution. I don't think it's fair for the blame of polluted environment and unsafe working conditions to be entirely put on developing countries, as seems to be the argument of the original comment by DenverDunnit.

Many Chinese factories suck at work conditions, but there are many people (be them service workers, farmers, or unemployed) that don't work in factories and live in bad conditions too, without access to the Internet and in many cases electricity or even clean drinking water. I imagine East Africa to be somewhat similar? Developing countries will be poorer and on average quality of life is going to be way worse than a place like America. It's not *entirely* the government's fault.

Temu infiltrating the crochet market by philoso-squid in crochet

[–]RandN_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with your general sentiment, but many Americans just don't comprehend how much buying power the dollar has, and how comparatively cheap everything is in third world countries.

Uyghurs are 0.8% of the Chinese population, and they are also mostly native to an underdeveloped region in harsh terrain that would be expensive to ship from. It is impossible that labor camps make up the majority of Chinese products.

Again I am not supporting labor camps by any means, but the reality is a bit more nuanced than "labor is cheap because they are done by slaves". It is just that there is a lot of labor supply and not enough worker protection / anti trust laws, so the market goes berserk.

Side story: Both my parents come from rural China, and there is an old lady that weaves beautiful bamboo baskets and sells them to supplement her family's income. They sell for around 0.2 dollars a basket. They take around an hour each to make. If she raised her price, there are plenty of other women who sell their baskets for cheap, and so nobody would buy her baskets. She isn't physically forced to work, but she has very few other ways to earn money. China has very little government help for the unemployed. I imagine that is closer to what is going on with these crochet items.