I was expecting to be pessimistic, but Google actually releases the datasets under a permissive license (CC-By 4.0). Awesome!
https://research.google/tools/datasets/open-images-extended-...
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#22They should avoid using the word community, if side product of these contributions are going to empower their sales. I had been contributing to Google Maps for more than 8 years now, but in return all i get is stars and maximum an invite to a meetup. But, when i saw the other side of Google Maps with respect to consuming it through API usage point of view, the prices are not affordable in long term. Also, there is a clear monopolization of maps data, but the data is enriched by human volunteers who never get the share of API revenue. In this age of web3 all these crowdsourcing and community keywords from companies like Google will earn more backlash than a warm welcome.
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#24I was expecting to be pessimistic, but Google actually releases the datasets under a permissive license (CC-By 4.0). Awesome! https://research.google/tools/datasets/open-images-extended-... https://github.com/google-research-datasets/hiertext
That blog post doesn't state that _all_ collected data through Crowdsource will get published.
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#25Is 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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#26I was expecting to be pessimistic, but Google actually releases the datasets under a permissive license (CC-By 4.0). Awesome! https://research.google/tools/datasets/open-images-extended-... https://github.com/google-research-datasets/hiertext
That blog post doesn't state that _all_ collected data through Crowdsource will get published.
Do you really want raw, unmoderated user generated content?
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It isn't slavery when there's people willing to do free work for Google (as perverse as it may sound). Just look at their product forums.
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#28So this helps improve Google’s proprietary products. But they aren’t willing to open source the data set?
According to this page, they have already open sourced some datasets:
https://crowdsource.google.com/about/open-source/
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#29Crowdsource by Google aka "Help a billion dollar company to create datasets for free"
We are already providing search clicks and video likes as indicators of content quality. They train AIs on our preferences.
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#30Maybe they are after more diverse answers than could be provided by their own employees. Meaning they don't hire diverse enough.