Heather Clark she/her

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I teach #Composition and American #History at a community college.
Special focus on #DevEd and #Equity
I love #Broadway #musicals #books and ways to be #creative
#Hoosier native
Hey Mastodon, hey!
We’re implementing 4DX at our college, and I can’t help but think that if any of our leadership had taken our Freshman onboarding class, we could have saved a lot of money. #highered #goalsetting #goals
Sigh. Two weeks while the kids are in school, but I have no work. #Book suggestions?
Same! All the bots. 🤦🏻‍♀️
I’m in Southern Indiana for a work thing. It’s very different from the North — and I was very happy to leave the snow behind.

This is quite the exposé!

I knew that OpenAI has been using crowd workers for at least the last two years to build instruct-tuning datasets for #ChatGPT. I didn’t know they were also outsourcing violence, hate speech, and sexual abuse labeling to Kenyans for $2/hour.

The work is apparently so traumatic that the outsourcing company, Sama, has cut ties with OpenAI.

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

OpenAI used outsourced workers in Kenya earning less than $2 per hour to scrub toxicity from ChatGPT. Here's what to know.

Time
Starbucks union drive emerges in Valparaiso

The Starbucks unionization effort has come to Valparaiso.

Chicago Tribune
Tomorrow I take my comprehensive exams for my MA in History. Any good mojo you might want to send would be greatly appreciated!
#histodons
My daughter just called Jesus the first nepo baby, and I just…
Why can’t I just get out of my car and walk in a building? Like, it will take me 15 minutes to make that transition. What is that? Anyone else?