Florist [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years agoHope you're all ready for the AI dominated futurehexbear.netimagemessage-square96linkfedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1255arrow-down1imageHope you're all ready for the AI dominated futurehexbear.netFlorist [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square96linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years agothe real reason that AI will never catch on is that child labour is just cheaper
minus-squareinvalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 years agoAI is catching on because it relies exclusively on unpaid (captcha) or underpaid (tagging) labor.
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoyeah but it also relies on paid labour to design it and they don’t stay relevant that long. I’m not saying it isn’t exploitative I’m saying it will never be cheaper than this other form of exploitation
minus-squareinvalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoYeah, but the bulk of the labor involved in machine learning systems is training and tagging. It’s profitable right now because the average wage of someone doing the “data mining” required for training are making like $1 a day.
the real reason that AI will never catch on is that child labour is just cheaper
AI is catching on because it relies exclusively on unpaid (captcha) or underpaid (tagging) labor.
yeah but it also relies on paid labour to design it and they don’t stay relevant that long. I’m not saying it isn’t exploitative I’m saying it will never be cheaper than this other form of exploitation
Yeah, but the bulk of the labor involved in machine learning systems is training and tagging.
It’s profitable right now because the average wage of someone doing the “data mining” required for training are making like $1 a day.