this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Writer reflects on the questionable ethics of the emerging AI industry and its exploitation and traumatizing of underpaid, and unpaid international labor & participation.

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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

It's not just the AI industry, and it is atrocious.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's really interesting, I didn't know about the human pruning of the responses to fine tune it's vomit into palatable ranges

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

well somehow have to reward and "punish" the network, so it learns.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is why I posted it tbh, as I imagined there may be many that don't realize how much of "AI" is a lot of manual labor being obfuscated by shiny tech.

If you look into self-driving & remote workers or labor, you can find similar accounts. Some companies trying to market their self-driving services are in reality being heavily supported by remote workers monitoring the vehicles & correcting errors or outright driving the cars in some instances. Remote operations themselves aren't really a problem, of course, but the deliberate attempts to present vehicles as fully self-driven are.