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AI steals pleasure of work, The Hindu says
A viral social media post shows a homemaker in Chennai paid up to ₹250 an hour to strap a camera to her head and record daily chores. Employers use the footage to…
The Story in Brief
A viral social media post shows a homemaker in Chennai paid up to ₹250 an hour to strap a camera to her head and record daily chores. Employers use the footage to train AI bots for unstructured environments. The Hindu columnist argues that this trend, and AI's growing role in software development, is robbing workers of the simple joys of working. The writer recalls watching her grandmother fold laundry with care, calling it an art, and contrasts it with today's AI-driven tasks where individual imprint and collective euphoria are lost. She worries about AI's impact on creativity and mental health.
The Indian Opinion
The column romanticises pre-AI work as a craft full of joy, but many jobs were backbreaking drudgery. The homemaker earning ₹250 an hour for recording chores is not losing an art, she is earning cash. The real test is not whether AI kills creativity, but whether total satisfaction at work, measured by surveys, not nostalgia, goes up or down. Will the next generation of workers report higher fulfilment than their parents? That figure will settle the argument.
Source: thehindu.com
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