I was seriously just about to make a comment if anyone read the article because like, what data would even be usable in this way? Like, Indeed has you input what your desired salary is, and maybe my credit card company sells my spending habits, what else would they use?
The article references the typical data collection practices that companies have been using for about a decade now, just with AI tools instead of manually or other kinds of bot collection. So, your social media presence (whether you’ll be a unionization risk), spending habits via companies that you should already not be buying from if you can help it (like Amazon or Walmart), and any other kind of public information on income level and previous employment. The bigger thing is for gig workers (which most liberals on here don’t give a shit about) whose wages can be much more easily altered since their employers can control their hourly rates depending on how many jobs that are available or that any given worker has taken on as well as how many potential workers can take on these jobs. For most people, this is nothing new, but yeah the highly adaptable nature of AI tools means that groups of people whose jobs are literally facilitated through these systems are at high risk of exploitation (as per usual).
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Headline culture.