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283 points Brajeshwar | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.477s | source
1. hliyan ◴[] No.45232308[source]
At least a few of these anecdoates are worrying:

> “At first they told [me]: ‘Don’t worry about time – it’s quality versus quantity,’” she said.

> But before long, she was pulled up for taking too much time to complete her tasks. “I was trying to get things right and really understand and learn it, [but] was getting hounded by leaders [asking], ‘Why aren’t you getting this done? You’ve been working on this for an hour.’”

And:

> Dinika said he’s seen this pattern time and again where safety is only prioritized until it slows the race for market dominance. Human workers are often left to clean up the mess after a half-finished system is released. “Speed eclipses ethics,” he said. “The AI safety promise collapses the moment safety threatens profit.”

Finally:

> One work day, her task was to enter details on chemotherapy options for bladder cancer, which haunted her because she wasn’t an expert on the subject.

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2. lostdog ◴[] No.45233645[source]
Yeah, you can see this with Google's search results too. They're trying to improve on some internal metric, but the metric was clearly generated from ratings by people ignorant of the topics. And so the search results get worse, but appear better internally.

Great to see that they have not learned from this experience, and are repeating the mistake with Gemini.

3. mallowdram ◴[] No.45233984[source]
How is this not Quest Diagnostics slipping into Theranos territory, buttressed by a hidden factory of typists?

This reminds me of the early voice-to-text start ups in the 00's that had these miraculous demos that required people in call centers to type it all up and pretend it was machine.