Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?
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This is about the $10/hour that they give to freelancers to solve math/physics/chemistry problems so that they can train the LLMs on them.
I get approached by “recruiters” all the time about this.
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Invest in an ad blocker or Firefox with 'reader view'.
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This is about the $10/hour that they give to freelancers to solve math/physics/chemistry problems so that they can train the LLMs on them. I get approached by “recruiters” all the time about this.
To be blunt, those freelancers wouldn't be doing this if they had better options
Every time one of these articles come up, you can recognize that silicon valley is treating these people badly, but you should remember that everyone else is treating them worse
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This is about the $10/hour that they give to freelancers to solve math/physics/chemistry problems so that they can train the LLMs on them. I get approached by “recruiters” all the time about this.
To be blunt, those freelancers wouldn't be doing this if they had better options Every time one of these articles come up, you can recognize that silicon valley is treating these people badly, but you should remember that everyone else is treating them worse
Doesn’t make it ok.
I do wonder how minor this foundation has been laid w where graduate students may be conditioned exploited by colleges.
Re: Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is about the $10/hour that they give to freelancers to solve math/physics/chemistry problems so that they can train the LLMs on them. I get approached by “recruiters” all the time about this.
To be blunt, those freelancers wouldn't be doing this if they had better options Every time one of these articles come up, you can recognize that silicon valley is treating these people badly, but you should remember that everyone else is treating them worse
> To be blunt, those freelancers wouldn't be doing this if they had better options
Correct, this is what the article points out.
Their options were squashed when SV was praising DOGE and the cuts to national research grants based on keywords like “inequalities”.
Nobody had the time to check that mathematicians also use the term.
We wrecked our research and the vultures got cheap labor to put lipstick on their slop machines.
Re: Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is about the $10/hour that they give to freelancers to solve math/physics/chemistry problems so that they can train the LLMs on them. I get approached by “recruiters” all the time about this.
To be blunt, those freelancers wouldn't be doing this if they had better options Every time one of these articles come up, you can recognize that silicon valley is treating these people badly, but you should remember that everyone else is treating them worse
Also if they're solving problems to help LLM training in their domain, that's actually pretty useful contribution to science - and definitely more directly useful than the work that dominates actual research, i.e. chasing grants instead of researching.