How the AI industry profits from catastrophe
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As the demand for data labeling exploded, an economic catastrophe turned Venezuela into ground zero for a new model of labor exploitation.

Ain't nothing new, but particularly bleak how quickly they're able to pivot to whatever the most easily-exploitable populace is.

  • Noven [any]
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    3 years ago

    Someone still has to teach the AI in the first place and for that you need millions of man hours manually labelling datasets. It's the one part of the equation you can't really fully automate away, the only other route is getting people to do it themselves (e.g. collecting labels from people's bios when scraping their social media accounts for data).

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      It's unfortunate that we can't send them to higher institutions of learning like our very own meatchildren.