A study (not yet peer-reviewed) done by a team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology concludes that between 33% and 46% of workers on platforms like Amazon's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
@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