People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI
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People paid to train AI are outsourcing their work to AI
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#2Wow, I feel like for once the headline isn't click-baity enough on this one. I expected maybe a few people, but...
"They estimated that somewhere between 33% and 46% of the workers had used AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT."
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#3I have farmed out work to Turks and tried to "go native" as a Turk and found I couldn't find HITs I could bear to do.
It used to be there were a lot of HITs that involved OCRing receipts but these were not receipts that were straightforward to OCR, they were receipts that failed the happy pass and that I thought there was no way I could transcribe them accurately in a reasonable amount of time considering what it paid.
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#4AI Hapsburg syndrome is real
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#5Remind me, what level of the fictive universe are we in today?
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#6It may turn out the most effective form of protest is not the equivalent of smashing the AI looms, but feeding them recursive inputs.
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#7> The workers are poorly paid and are often expected to complete lots of tasks very quickly.
Even if you paid people $1000 per hour they would still use AI to train AI.
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#8what exactly is involved in training an AI?
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#9> The workers are poorly paid and are often expected to complete lots of tasks very quickly. Even if you paid people $1000 per hour they would still use AI to train AI.
Yeah if I could make $10,000 an hour by using AI to 10x my data labeling capacity, I'd take a break from software engineering.
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#10what exactly is involved in training an AI?
Usually labeling text/images, answering simple questions, ranking or scoring.