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I spent the whole time reading the article thinking "so you got scammed by people looking to find a way to hide prejudice behind ML? What a surprise..." Maybe
by giggles_giggles 7y ago
I spent the whole time reading the article thinking "so you got scammed by people looking to find a way to hide prejudice behind ML? What a surprise..."
Maybe the lesson here is that people doing unethical things will take the opportunity to do more unethical things, like not pay you, and it may well be in your self interest to apply your ethics when choosing a job? Upwork doesn't look great here, but seems like it's hardly the whole problem.
- hihi123 7y agoNo, that's not the lesson. Upwork the platform scammed him, not the 'unethical' clients. The clients were looking to settle the bill.
- oeoeo00 7y agoThe client says that but they’re peddling unethical shit. It’s not unlikely the client knows exactly the way Upwork works and gamed their process too. And they get away with by scapegoating Upwork. Ticketmaster is an abuse catcher for venue price gouging. Why not hide behind Upwork policy to achieve a similar “no skin in the game” buffer. We just keep adding administration layers to everything, for jobs of course, while we see it always turn into an obfuscation tactic for swindlers.
- closetohome 7y agoI mean, the clients may be unethical too. But more in a not-hiring-minorities kind of way than a scamming-their-contractors kind of way.
- bofadeez 7y agoThat's a pretty wild assumption. They clearly were willing to pay.