The VergeMar 15
AI companies want to harvest improv actors’ skills to train AI on human emotion https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/893931/ai-companies-handshake-improv-actors-training-data
AI companies want to harvest improv actors’ skills to train AI on human emotion

Handshake AI has a job listing calling for improv actors and other performers to help it train frontier AI models for one of the world’s leading labs.

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@verge
> complain about unlicensed data being used to train AI models
> only cite Reddit posts
> workers openly speak of sabotaging the data when being paid to create licensed data for training AI models

My professional opinion is that this is either being used as evaluation data, or as a data source to claim fully licensed data ("look, we have all this data we used for training"). They wouldn't be able to hire enough people to create the kind of corpus needed.

Mar 15 at 2:21pmWeb