J. Nathan Matias 🦣

Machine learning has so many potential benefits to society...

...but the creators of these systems continue to demonstrate an astonishing disrespect for humanity and human labor that is draining my hope for realizing those benefits

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-spotify-audiobook-narrators-ai-contract/

Audiobook Narrators Fear Apple Used Their Voices to Train AI

After a backlash, Spotify paused an arrangement that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.

WIRED
Feb 15, 2023 at 8:00pmWeb
Show threadSimcaxFeb 17, 2023
@natematias this is really not okay 😳
I am disheartened to read such a story.
Show threadOld Fucking PunkFeb 17, 2023
@natematias One could say that machine learning is as much a victim of #capitalism as the rest of us.
Show threadmark simpkinsFeb 25, 2023
@natematias the fact that we now have to call out and machine learning for good or ethical machine learning just shows how far we have strayed into rapacious capitalism :(