Category: Social Media

Thoughts on socia media, which has addicted many and alienated others.

A new level of desperation by a Global South Linkedin user: Using AI to automate the process of clicking on click work

These days many freelance translators, post-editors, and anything-they-can-getters have apparently taken to sitting in front of their computers, constantly refreshing numerous click-work sites in hopes of both clicking before someone else and offering a low enough rate to get whatever scraps fall off the click-work table.

Today while scrolling through LinkedIn posts, I was presented with a post from a fellow in Cameroon offering a bot to automate the process, so now you can more efficiently catch those scraps dropped from the click-work table. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Click-work dependency didn’t start recently, and now it appears to be the normal method of getting work for many people even not in the Global South who formerly actually made a living by doing translation.

Three isn’t just an odd number. It’s the only integer between two and four.

In a contrived post about Shibusawa Eiichi on a certain platform not known for user authenticity:

Shibusawa wasn’t just an entrepreneur. He was a system builder.

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He didn’t try to dominate one industry. He helped create all of them.

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Japan’s modernization did not happen by accident. It was intentional.

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[As the reason why he’s on the 10,000-yen note] Not because he was the richest man in Japan, but because he made it possible for others to create wealth.

Wow, that’s four of these AI-smelling constructions in a single post.

Does the person who wrote this using AI realize what it looks like? I doubt it. He identifies as a… drumroll… founder.

Enough said, and I doubt that you even need be told by me where the above was posted—everybody’s favorite hyper-curated phony persona promotion platform.