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Didn't the AI hypers tell us that AI would boost the economy by a lot and that it's a multi-trillion dollar opportunity? Turns out it (too) relies on modern slavery to be profitable.
(OpenAI/Microsoft do a similar thing but with Nigerian workers: https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/)
This is an interesting idea, but I'm still a bit irked about prison labor.
I understand that this permits productive ways to pass time, but the wages per hour are atrocious. It reminds me of the 13th amendment of the US Constitution:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
I agree, especially in the US, with large brands taking advantage.
Don't the wages reflect that they have no bills to pay though?
eh ... this might create some interesting biases in the training data ...
Might as well. If I was stuck in a cage for most of my day, I'd be happy to mindlessly click around a computer.
But, I am adhd, so I might be the weird one.
Im guessing its gonna be like endlessly solving captchas. And i hate doing that
I've gotten used to it since websites hate my VPN. Especially Google who makes me solve like 10 of them
"now that's a scary number!" /em drags into box
Finally found the solution to the alignment problem
Weve spent so much time worry about how to align it we never stopped to think what we should align it to
