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My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There is something very strange about having this very intimate view into someone's life. It feels odd to see someone's daily drive, but it's also an important part of correcting and refining the program.

We review about five and a half to six hours of footage per day. It can be very hard to focus. You can get in this kind of fog when you're just watching clip after clip and it can be difficult to keep yourself sane.

Anytime you're not clicking around in the software program, it tracks you as if you aren't working and it basically sets off an alarm to your superiors.

These jobs sound very dystopian to me, and a bit psychopathic as well. All the movies I watched growing up about dystopian societies is reflected in what this guy says about his job.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's even stranger that employees choose to work in these conditions. I understand that people who work at the packaging floor at Amazon may not have better options, but surely if you are starting to doubt your sanity when going to work, you would find another one?

I guess I've never been that desperate myself for a specific job so I don't get it.