The A.I. Industry Is Exploiting Gig Workers Around the World — Sometimes for Just $8 a Day
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-a-i-industry-is-exploiting-gig-workers-around-the-world-sometime
A new paper sheds light on the industry’s troubling relationship with the global gig economy Modern artificial intelligence relies on algorithms processing millions of examples or images or text. A picture of a bird in an A.I. dataset would be manually tagged “bird” so that the algorithm associated aspects of that image with the category “bird.” The process of tagging this data, by hand, scaled to the millions, is time-consuming and mind-numbingly monotonous. Much of this work is done outside (...)
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