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AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI

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Re: AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI

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Post by captain_perl »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #7

I have priced some popular computer vision APIs and found you can get a human in southeast Asia to do the work cheaper... Something seems wrong with that!!!

OpenCV is free and used for important projects at companies including Yahoo! and others.

Re: AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI

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Post by thelastbender12 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #10
tabbott wrote: post #8

A poorly-kept secret in Silicon Valley is that many "AI startups" started over the last few years are actually using humans, with a long-term plan to slowly decrease the amount of work the humans do using algorithms (generally based on machine learning, but not always) as well as more basic automation. In some cases they don't actually do any "AI" work for the company's first few years, and if they do, it's more like…

cough cough Palantir.

Curious, is what the article describes illegal? Or just false marketing.

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

Off topic, but SixthTone is an interesting publication. It is actually controlled by the CPC in an attempt to create news that westerners would actually read [1], as opposed to Chinadaily and Globaltimes that are too obviously propaganda. In this case, they go with China-critical articles and then try to direct the message to a pro-government position from that perspective.

This is actually how wumaos are supposed to work in China as well. If they go with a blatantly pro-government message, they will be ignored by anyone critical of the Chinese government. So instead, they come in agreeing with critical positions and redirect sentiment from there. So if you ever hear someone who sounds like a wumao, they are probably just overzealous nationalists and not shills.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/03/china-explained-sixth-t...

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Post by blihp »

thelastbender12 wrote: post #15
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cough cough Palantir.

Curious, is what the article describes illegal? Or just false marketing.

Likely depends on whether the story is being told to customers/users or investors. As long as their service does what is advertised, customers/users would be hard pressed to prove any harm. Investors on the other hand have a reasonable expectation that the thing they are being told they are investing in is the thing they are actually investing in.
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