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Crowdsource by Google
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#2> Find Your Passion: Spotting food or animals in photos…
> Get Recognized: earn cool badges, level up on the leaderboards…
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#3You truly are the product.
Don’t feed the FAANG.
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#4Is this essentially mechanical Turk, but without paying the laborers?
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#5Is this essentially mechanical Turk, but without paying the laborers?
Seems like, with a better name tho.
But you get fun out of it! And you make a difference (in Alphabet's bottom line).
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#6Because calling it "free labour" just wouldn't attract quite as many people...
Perhaps ~2 decades ago I would've been a bit more optimistic, but now that I'm aware of the authoritarian dystopia which Google and the rest of Big Tech are trying to drive society towards, I feel obliged to point out that helping it achieve that goal is a really bad idea.
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#7Is this essentially mechanical Turk, but without paying the laborers?
Not really, you can't get child labor on MTurk (officially). But hey, you get badges, and you help the community by providing them training data they'll lock up in a server and use to monopolize more sectors of the economy. Everyone wins when google can do better sentiment analysis on your non-english emails.
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#8Now let's imagine it's fun enough so that people don't see it as free labor, but see it as genuine entertainment, like, say, Wordle.
How would they weed out bad-faith players who would try to teach the AI bad ideas, just for, well, fun of it?
I don't believe they might fail to anticipate that; I want to understand their approach.
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#9So this helps improve Google’s proprietary products. But they aren’t willing to open source the data set?