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Can't quite believe I'm writing this: Today, 150 African workers behind ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook voted to unionize at a landmark meeting in Nairobi.
These AI workers are invisible, underpaid, and the backbone of the tech in all our pockets:
https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/
Big tech companies once declined to release their most powerful AIs for safety reasons. Now, they are throwing open the doors.
Not because the AIs are any safer. But because a new arms race is on.
TIME's cover story this week, by me and Andrew R. Chow
https://time.com/6255952/ai-impact-chatgpt-microsoft-google/
šØExclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found:
New:
In a rare interview, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis tells me he is concerned about the speed at which AI is progressing, and urges his competitors to focus more on safety.
āI would advocate not moving fast and breaking things,ā he says.
New:
In a rare interview, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis tells me he is concerned about the speed at which AI is progressing, and urges his competitors to focus more on safety.
āI would advocate not moving fast and breaking things,ā he says.
New:
Facebook's content moderation partner for Sub-Saharan Africa, Sama, announced today it is quitting the content moderation business entirely.
It comes nearly a year after I first reported on traumatic working conditions and low pay at the "ethical AI" company.
Full story:
https://time.com/6246018/facebook-sama-quits-content-moderation/
