A study (not yet peer-reviewed) done by a team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology concludes that between 33% and 46% of workers on platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk had used AI models to automate work typically done by humans needed to train AI systems.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/22/1075405/the-people-paid-to-train-ai-are-outsourcing-their-work-to-ai/

#ai #ChatGPT #MachineLearning #tech #news #study

The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI

It’s a practice that could introduce further errors into already error-prone models.

MIT Technology Review

"The workers are poorly paid and are often expected to complete lots of tasks very quickly."

"But I think the AI community will have to investigate closely which tasks are most prone to being automated and to work on ways to prevent this."

Hm.

#LaborRights #WorkersRights

@stefan No way to prevent AI from being fed its own drivel, it looks like
@stefan where was that study on irreversible breakdown? LOL

@stefan I see two solutions to this problem. Pay your workers a living wage, giving them the time and resources to produce higher quality data. Or hire a team of data scientists making 150k a year each, to build another AI model to clean your dataset for you. Except the model only has about a 73% test accuracy and was trained using data labeled by the same workers you are underpaying.

I wonder which option will draw in more investors?

@stefan this is very funny (and awful etc…)

@nik Yes, we might actually see the dead internet theory play out in real life at this pace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

Dead Internet theory - Wikipedia