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- cross-posted to:
- futurology
- worldnews@lemmit.online
Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251020103129/https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/
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bleak
Drones*
Want to hire foreign workers but don’t want any immigration? Drones are the answer for you!
At some point they’ll have these manning (robotting) the registers too, not just restocking the fridges.
It reminds me of this:

Always filipino, everywhere else is always indians.
This reminds me a company that claimed to have automatized, I think it was their counters? But it was actually run remotely by workers in India






