Oh hey I remember these guys from Trashfuture
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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If Ai stands for "Absent indian" what does agi stand for?
edit: my brain didn't process the title properly.
Let’s drop the “indian” part of this and come up with something else, please.
I personally didn't think it was bad because india is one of the countries commonly exploited for this kind of thing, but I can see why you would want to avoid using it.
Hey, as long as we can learn from this, then we are doing our best to keep this bar nazi-free.
+1! and there's so many better options anyway!
right off the top of my head (in addition to inside/instead): incognito, insecurely
Instead sounds good, but "Absent Inside" makes it sound like it is an actual ai.
"A Guy Instead", it's in the title?
fuck im blind.
Alternatively, "A Guy (from) India".
@BlueMonday1984 @luciole A Group of Indians
A Group of Indians
That's called a call center
for the same reasons as this, not really a thing I'd post, even in jest
the existence of these callcenters (often in india, but hardly only there - much of africa is beset by the same problem) is an outright fucking feature of the years-long capitalist market optimisation hell-loop. and as annoying as their "output" (for lack of a better word) may be in one's daily life, at the end of the day it's still a bunch of people at the bottom rung getting fucked
(e: I mention "callcenters" but "AI support centers"/"data review"/"remote shoppers"/.... - it's all the same fucking exploitation-offshoring dynamic)
Yes, exactly. The same capitalist/colonialist/imperialist forces that exploit the global south are the same that want AI to automate everyone into abject poverty. We can do better and show class solidarity by not perpetuating these racist stereotypes.
I don't want to speak for the people affected, but I always read it (or as I've heard it called here, "the chinese backend") as a criticism of the capitalism and colonialism that lead to that kind of exploitation, not a criticism of the people being exploited.
Sure, but we should be calling these things out directly, rather than indirectly in a way that fuels racism.