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Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines: Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI. (restofworld.org)

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[–] 100@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

seems like a good place to ban employers doing this to protect local jobs (foreigners remoting to do physical jobs with robots for 10% of the cost and probably dodging labour laws)

[–] overat8@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think it’s unavoidable due to the fact Japan has a declining birth rates and because of that, there isn’t enough young people to fill these entry job roles.