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AI companies are learning an ironic lesson as the people they pay to improve their chatbots are just feeding AI slop into them (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 112 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"If these companies want quality data, then they should offer quality contracts," Alice continued. "Instead they're low-balling struggling people, employing them for the barest possible amount of time and tossing them aside as projects are finished with no warning."

Pay peanuts, get monkeys. Or minimum viable product for that price range, if you want to put it more fancy.

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You get what you pay for.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago

My dad always corrects me to: you never get more than you pay for.