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    Inside the AI Factory - 10 month(s) ago

    As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

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    • The #AI annotation economy is big. ‘A recent Google Research paper gave an order-of-magnitude figure of “millions” with the potential to become “billions.”’ ⁦@intelligencer⁩ h/t ⁦@arjunmanrai⁩ https://t.co/FPJWZUTLew

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    Inside the AI Factory - 10 month(s) ago

    As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

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    • Not much had been written about the millions of human annotators behind current #AI models, getting paid as little as $1/hr, until this eye-opening investigative reporting by @joshdzieza @NYMag and @verge https://t.co/XXKoejJJiq https://t.co/V92vbLrNmK

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    The new bot-generated content is ominous for digital publishers. But the search giant might have a reason to pull back.

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    • For publishers, however — a range of other content one might describe as existing to “distill complex information and multiple perspectives into easy-to-digest formats” — it looked like nothing less than an existential crisis. https://t.co/zu3YJWMkUg https://t.co/zJPjKO68mG

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    Kara Swisher talks to the ambitious FTC chair about big-tech misbehavior, and whether existing laws are enough to take on AI.

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    • "I think we need to be very wary of systems where it’s the public that is carrying the burden of doing cleanup. The responsibility should be on [these firms] to make sure that before they put these tools out into the wild, that they’re safe for people." https://t.co/BMXGV5xH1i