Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
People Getting Paid to Wear Cameras As They Do Chores, Videos Will Be Used To Train AI In Robots
March 13th, 2026Via: Los Angeles Times: The hottest new gig-economy job in Los Angeles is performing at home to help artificial intelligence understand how humans move. Hundreds of people from Santa Monica to Los Feliz are strapping cameras on their heads and hands as they do chores at home so bots can watch how they make coffee, […]
And Now… U.S. Asks Ukraine’s Help To Shoot Down Iran’s Shahed Drones In Gulf
March 7th, 2026I don’t even know where to start… Via: ZeroHedge: In the ultimate irony of ironies, Financial Times is reporting US officials are discussing the purchase of Ukrainian-made drone interceptors to counter Iranian drones, which some analysts say have proven harder to stop than expected. Patriot missile interceptors used by US allies cost more than $4 […]
Anthropic Refusing to Let U.S. Government Use AI for Mass Domestic Surveillance and Fully Autonomous Weapons
February 27th, 2026Via: Anthropic: The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label […]
OpenAI Is Suddenly in Trouble
February 21st, 2026Via: Cold Fusion TV: Related: AI Fails at 96% of Jobs (New Study)
As Refineries Close, California Needs to Get Gasoline Transhipped Through the Bahamas
February 16th, 2026This is so painfully retarded that I struggled to read all of it. Via: Bloomberg: US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending up in California, a state battling shrinking fuelmaking capacity and high pump prices. Shipments on the circuitous route […]
Public Relations for Jeffery Epstein
February 12th, 2026Via: The Verge: In between hobnobbing with royalty and world leaders and abusing children and young women, Jeffrey Epstein appears to have been googling himself regularly. Across several batches of documents related to the convicted sex offender made public, we see Epstein shoot off emails to associates, complaining that his digital footprint includes factual information […]
And Now… “Jeffrey Epstein Was a Russian Spy”
February 7th, 2026*snort* Here is the proof Epstein was a Russian asset: – his girlfriend was the daughter of a Mossad agent– one of his best friends was Israel's lawyer– another of his best friends was a former Israeli prime minister– he met with the current Israeli prime minister– a senior Israeli… — Normal Island News (@NormalIslandNws) […]
When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
February 6th, 2026Via: Futurism: Waymo has established itself as the autonomous ride-hailing service to beat, operating a fleet of several thousand self-driving taxis across the United States, with active services in ten major metropolitan areas. That “self-driving” may be due for some extra scrutiny, though. During a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, Waymo’s chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, […]
New Site Lets AI Rent Humans
February 6th, 2026I think that it’s not satire. Via: Futurism: The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.” When Liteplo launched […]
Tesla Ending Models S and X Production, Converting Factory Lines to Make Optimus Robots
January 28th, 2026Via: CNBC: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the automaker is ending production of its Model S and X vehicles, and will use the factory in Fremont, California, to build Optimus humanoid robots. “It’s time to basically bring the Model S and X programs to an end with an honorable discharge,” Musk said […]
