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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 2 days 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 20 points 2 days 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 12 points 2 days ago

Oof imaging being employed to do captchas all day.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day 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.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Beats starvation, tho :/

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