Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop - eviltoast
  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    All “AI” relies on thousands and thousands of low-paid, overworked humans in the Global South staring at screens so snake-oil salesmen in SV and Redmond can claim they’re about to revolutionize the world. It’s all lies.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      7 months ago

      Actually most AI relies on high quality data acquired from all sorts of sources including academic research papers, GitHub code repositories, books and journals, newspapers, and technical manuals.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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        7 months ago

        Uh-huh… And yet reddits biggest source of cash recently was selling the comments section for training AI data… Sure. “High Quality”

        Only if you recognize most the comments are written by people who are high.

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          7 months ago

          Reddit is run by an idiot. Don’t worry about what reddit’s doing they’re not making money.

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        7 months ago

        Manually parsed and corrected by near-slave labor.

        Enjoy your funny ChatGPT output though, you monster.

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          7 months ago

          What the actual hell is that comment? I’m sorry are you suggesting some kind of evil cabal or something?

          Might want to make some more sense