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by sturob
1217 days ago
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An important detail that none of the reporting I've seen has mentioned: Tesla got upwards of $750 million in subsidies from the state of NY for putting the Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo. The condition was that they had to support 1460 jobs. Last I heard they were around 1500, so it's reasonable to believe the analyst jobs are only located there to avoid paying fines for breach of contract with NYS. |
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The Solar factory didn't really take off like expected so to hit that job requirement they staffed it with extremely low skill jobs. The article nicely calls them analysts but they're simple data labelers. They look at a picture, make a box around a stop sign and tell the computer that is a stop sign, then do the same with a speed limit sign, then on to the next item in the picture (curb, deer, tree, lines, etc)... then repeat the same process for the next photo. These people do not need to be in buffalo to do this job, but Tesla does need humans to do it, and primarily Americans where they understand the culture and general rules of the road.