I’m a model. In 2016 (16 years old) I moved to China on my own for work. I’ve been working as a model since I was 13, but it was in China where I discovered that the model-to-escort pipeline is very real & sex is used as currency. Modelling doesn’t really pay that well - the real money is made by escorting & modelling work is just a fancy ad: you being the product.
I work in the automotive sector. Most OEMs are only getting more aggressive and invasive with respect to your privacy, and there are regular discussions about how to monetize your data. I’ve been in discussions where people proposed to analyze your driving style to track you better, and integrate that with targeted ads in your vehicle.
Also, full-autonomous (level 5) is still a long way off from general use on (non-modified) public roads. Most of what you see on the road today that advertises being “fully autonomous driving” is monitored and controlled by underpaid workers.
I work in factory automation in the automotive sector. I think the dark side of automotive is the sexism and casual racism of the old white fucks. Women either work the front office for shit pay and are not taken seriously, or are hired in engineering positions strictly because they are good looking and not based on merit.
Every automation show I go to are the same old white, cigar smoking, whiskey sipping, men and for every 1000 old white man is 1 super hot young engineer.
Maybe that’s not strictly in this field though.