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[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 94 points 1 week ago
[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 1 week ago

being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage.

From another article I read about this, seems like it involves a lot of drawing precise boxes around people and objects, stuff like that. Terminators gotta learn their sex moves from somewhere.

[-] moot@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

In a certain nihilistic dreadful sense it's hilarious how these AI advancements are built on the backs of exploitative manual labor. On the surface the AI models are so utterly impressive at how "smart" and advanced the tech appears to be, but the truth of it is just slave labor building a catalog of labeled data sourced from mass surveillance. The aliens should really intervene soon, before we build something that can threaten them...

[-] Alenalda@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Oof imaging being employed to do captchas all day.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Beats starvation, tho :/

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

I actually did data labeling work on amazon mturk for a while, it does kind of suck, the main saving grace was I could largely do it on my own schedule but I assume these people don't really get that benefit.

[-] echolalia@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago

They need someone to review and tag the recorded footage to train AI models.

No moment is private when wearing these glasses. I'm glad they haven't caught on where I live.

[-] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago

Read the article??

“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” the employee said. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was a rhetorical question, and directed at Facebook as a collective.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

cause it's a mechanical turk

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