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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 195 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

"Young Chinese women have small fingers," the article reads, "and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said."

This 100% reads like LLM output; it's confidently wrong, isn't using proper news copy syntax, and got weirdly vague as it trailed off ("the small device").

NYT is publishing AI articles.

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 104 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Wasn't this also the argument for child labor? "Small children can fit into tight spaces easier, lets use them to unjam dangerous machinery"

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But the children yearn for the mines!

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's all about the roboblox these days. The kids yearn for robots.

The kids yearn for robots.

I know I did back in the 80s and 90s when I was a kid. Perfect example of a monkey paw wish, though, as fascists gonna fasc

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago

The right watched snow piercer and needed therapy after see all the horrible things that the back of the train did to their betters.

[–] Bouzou@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Yes. For example I know in textiles especially, they were small enough to run under & between machines to get things without the factory having to them off. (Surprise surprise, guess how kids got maimed and/or killed...)

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Probably scrapped articles with “labor in Asia” to get this spat out

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

China use child labor, so……

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Does it? They're a middle-upper income country now, and child labor tends to be an issue at much lower levels of development. Anyway, for the Chinese electronics sector, you're vastly more likely to see humanoid robots than children.

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