Here’s the original post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/61773916

I spent my remaining $1,000 to get a lawyer regarding this. It was worth doing, I think because this could have set me up for a long time in a $600/mo apartment and I’ve been homeless recently (this story is really fucking complicated and I’m not willing to get into it for any reason). The legal advice boiled down to essentially my lawyer contacting theirs and reviewing a potential contract. The verdict? “It doesn’t hold water and there’s likely no real money there. They are trying to exploit you.” - which was something I thought may be happening anyway. If it smells like shit… etc.

So, if you receive this an offer like this - run. I don’t want to list the company name for potential doxxing reasons because their hiring pool is very limited. Down side is that I’m very broke now. It was worth a shot, I guess.

I’m also now in a really bad position because I just drained my bank account for a lawyer in the hopes of potentially being set up for years and the odd chance of kicking off a revolution via potentially hundreds of thousands of lost US jobs.

I’m going to be homeless again in a few weeks, but at least this time I have a car. If mods are ok with it, I’d like to link my webcomic (and therein is a support link, though it’s kind of buried).

Fuck AI.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldM
    3·
    9 hours ago

    “there’s likely no real money there”

    Does this mean the lawyers determined it’s a scam company who won’t pay you? If you’re going to be homeless, isn’t working for them temporarily an option?

    • LyrialOP
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Yes. And yes. I’m just in such a bad mental state right now that things are really hard to judge.

    • LyrialOP
      5·
      14 hours ago

      I have to say that I am rightly confused as to what Fedecan (while it seems like a cool project at first glance) has to do with any of this. And like I said in the previous post - poisoning the data doesn’t pass muster when they need measurable results from actual dimensions to surface finish. You can get away with one of them. Both isn’t going to happen when they use a CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine) that measures both.

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    I am not well versed in the CAD/CAM world, but I believe this won’t gonna last due to strict case-dependent measurements. LLMgen would probably work with Blender, ignoring all topology mistakes and just rendering animation, but in CAD it all just get fucked. I don’t think AI would help anything but stretching bolt sizes and hole sizes for them, but with a drop of random deviance here and there.

    • LyrialOP
      7·
      11 hours ago

      In the modern era, when you are trying to machine a part the customer will typically send you a full 3d model of the part. You then plop it into MasterCAM or SolidWorks. From there, you manually select surfaces in order to generate a toolpath. It gets more complicated from there. What an LLM could do is potentially cut out that whole manual toolpath creation entirely. Straight from model to finished part in a few minutes.

      • LiarAmongAll@lemmy.zip
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I work in Aerospace that works with models and GD&T (mostly metrology), if there’s any chance it misinterprets a model in any way, that’ll cause huge problems down the line during milling. Not sure what type of milling you’re doing, but the more axis you have, the more complicated all that model based programming math gets, the more room for error. Just what I’ve personally heard from our NC guys, they’re running NX and Vericut, so it could be different, but I doubt the issue would be too different in this case. AI is too good at hallucinating inputs that never happened. Maybe it’ll get that past that, personally I hope it doesn’t as that could put a lot of good guys out of work 😞