Inmates in Finland are training AI as part of prison labor
▻https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285572/prison-labor-finland-artificial-intelligence-data-tagging-vainu
Prison labor” is usually associated with physical work, but inmates at two prisons in Finland are doing a new type of labor : classifying data to train artificial intelligence algorithms for a startup. Though the startup in question, Vainu, sees the partnership as a kind of prison reform that teaches valuable skills, other experts say it plays into the exploitative economics of prisoners being required to work for very low wages. Vainu is building a comprehensive database of companies (...)
