"Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support the booming business of artificial intelligence... In dingy internet cafes, jam-packed office spaces or at home, they annotate the masses of data that American companies need to train their artificial intelligence models. The workers differentiate pedestrians from palm trees in videos used to develop the algorithms for automated driving; they label images so AI can generate representations of politicians and celebrities; they edit chunks of text to ensure language models like ChatGPT don’t churn out gibberish... More than 2 million people in the Philippines perform this type of “crowdwork,'...as part of AI’s vast underbelly...click by click, a largely unregulated army of humans is transforming the raw data into AI feedstock..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...emotasks-philippines-artificial-intelligence/ "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/2...n-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots
@hawki. Gross! The WP article is long, but worth the read. @Daveski17. Count yourself lucky that AI did not choose Roseanne Barr for your audio pleasure.
@Daveski17. Count yourself lucky that AI did not choose Roseanne Barr for your audio pleasure. Yeah, she is marginally funnier than Lady Gaga though.
