Cross posted from https://lemmy.ca/post/68973627

Imagine if a company could figure out exactly how desperate you are for a job...

Then use AI to offer you the lowest salary they think you'll accept.

That's the idea behind wage surveillance.

Companies are collecting more data than ever before, from AI interviews and online activity to your location and personal information, all in an effort to make hiring cheaper. The less they think you'll push back, the less they have to pay.

In this video, we're talking about wage surveillance, AI interviews, personalized salary offers, why you should stop oversharing during the hiring process, and how companies are using your own data against you.

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[–] 28 points 2 months ago (9 children)

They've been doing this since the dawn of capitalism. This just makes it far easier.

Outlaw data centers.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    We kinda need some data centers.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago

    Don't be silly rabbit... Not the CPU data centers but the nazi corpo water sucking nazi dragnet locking kids in cages steam rolling land grabbing billionare welfare queen tax payer funded your kids future fuck it my future GPU data centers

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    We’ve done well enough with in house servers in the past

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Not everyone has a house to put a server into. Or the technical abilities.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    And you think data centres are going to make life easier for them?

    Data storage needs for the homeless might be the wildest claim of support for data centres I’ve heard yet

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    If an employer is paying me the least they think they can get away with, my work performance will be in accordance with that.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Isnt this the point of capitalism like its explained to children? The employer tries to pay the employee as low as necessary while the employee tries to get that "necessary" as high as possible

    Whether this ensures a fair compensation or not is a more complex topic, but its not relevant to this

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sooner or later people are going to indulge in other forms of desperation :(

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