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Easy. Human feedback and training. The open secret is that just the AI “revolution” is built upon uncompensated or barely-compensated human labor. Not just ever
by EGreg 3y ago
Easy. Human feedback and training. The open secret is that just the AI “revolution” is built upon uncompensated or barely-compensated human labor. Not just everyone uploading their stuff to the internet for 30 years but also this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/04/11/how-alexandr-wang-turned-an-army-of-clickworkers-into-a-73-billion-ai-unicorn/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/04/11/how-alexa...
Most people on HN have no idea about that
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-magic-spy-on-you-experts-warn https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-magic-spy-on-you-experts-wa...
And especially OpenAI:
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
That’s the dirty secret of why ChatGPT 4 is better. But they’ll tell you it has to do with chaining ChatGPT 3’s together, more fine tuning etc.
They go to these poor countries and recruit people to work on training the AI, scan their eyeballs for crypto and whatever else. And then privatize the profits from all this.
But it’s nothing new, capitalists have always exploited labor… and people make their choices.
At least it isn’t ivory or blood diamonds
https://www.reuters.com/technology/kenya-panel-urges-shutdown-worldcoins-crypto-project-within-country-2023-10-02/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/kenya-panel-urges-shutdow...