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Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money (www.404media.co)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I played with it a couple of times to see what it was like. I now have about eighty cents in us currency sitting in my PayPal. Woo.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did it years ago when I was a teenager with no real job. There were a bunch of higher-paying jobs like lecture transcription that would be a few bucks each. I made enough to buy a GPU off Amazon (~$80, some of which was from a leftover gift card).

Now I'm sure that ML-AI can do those jobs much faster and cheaper, for about the same accuracy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're mainly used to train AI so that would be a bad move

[–] circuitfarmer 8 points 10 months ago

Many companies are using AI to generate AI training data. Most of them are data brokers where the margins are becoming razor thin. It's totally a bad idea, but it is definitely happening.