81–90 of 142 posts
So many comments bemoaning a company benefiting from the free labour of others. Wait until they hear about open source software, they'll do their nut!
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-... https://github.com/google-research-datasets/hiertext
"Google shares some Crowdsource data via open-sourcing" Looks like the releases will only be partial. This kind of data should be collected bu a nonprofit for the benefit of everyone.
Who even comes up with these things?
One of the tasks in this app is audio validation: > Audio validation: Listen to a short audio clip and determine if the pronunciation sounds natural in your language. If this is something you're interested in doing, I recommend contributing to Mozilla's Common Voice instead. Common Voice builds freely licensed (CC-0) voice datasets that can be used by anyone, not just Google: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org
Quoted post unavailable.
One of the tasks in this app is audio validation: > Audio validation: Listen to a short audio clip and determine if the pronunciation sounds natural in your language. If this is something you're interested in doing, I recommend contributing to Mozilla's Common Voice instead. Common Voice builds freely licensed (CC-0) voice datasets that can be used by anyone, not just Google: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org
Quoted post unavailable.
Mozilla on the other hand is a non-profit which will release the result of your labor under a very permissible license.
I was always a huge fan of Google from the late 90s onwards and was employed their from 2011 to 2013. I continue to use their services to this day. Unfortunately no matter how much you like something, when any one entity amasses this much power it's bound to make you a bit uncomfortable. I wish Google did more to anonymize and potentially distribute this kind of tech in a way that enabled anyone to run it. At the sca…
UBI also provides income when the recipient performs no work at all for whatever reason. Why would a company support that?
Because 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.
I don't know what you are ranting about but the term "crowdsourcing" is exactly what this tool is created to do. Don't use it if you don't want to.
And I'm quite sure people criticizing this won't be using it :)
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-... https://github.com/google-research-datasets/hiertext
I was always a huge fan of Google from the late 90s onwards and was employed their from 2011 to 2013. I continue to use their services to this day. Unfortunately no matter how much you like something, when any one entity amasses this much power it's bound to make you a bit uncomfortable. I wish Google did more to anonymize and potentially distribute this kind of tech in a way that enabled anyone to run it. At the sca…
> Ultimately crowdsource leads to UBI powered by Google. It's inevitable. UBI also provides income when the recipient performs no work at all for whatever reason. Why would a company support that?
As far as I see this, Google want us to do the job...for free. No, thank you very much. Payment for this should be mandatory. Do not work for free for a humongous company.
Does anyone else hate what corporations have done to the word "delightful"? All the corporate art is so homogeneous too. Also a trillion dollar plus market cap company trying to get free labor? Seriously?
It's giving free services. What about that? And, not just this one company many other trillion $$ market caps give free and paid services and also welcome free feedback. When you comment on Yelp, Google Maps review, YouTube it's same.
(...subsidized by the huge amount of ads inserted everywhere)