c/ghazi · by squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3y

AI Is a Lot of Work - As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots

Article by The Verge and New York Magazine, documenting the hidden work that goes into "training" AI and the conditions of the people who do that.

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AfterthoughtC@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

You get the feeling that the 'we have to choose between two shitty answers' problem mentioned is because the chatbots being trained are trying to be everything at once?

squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y

You are probably on to something there. Chasing the dream of a general purpose chatbot seems to be what the venture capitalists demand though, so we will be stuck with them...