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‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI

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283 points Brajeshwar | 1 comments | 13 Sep 25 11:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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iandanforth ◴[13 Sep 25 12:41 UTC] No.45231600[source]▶
"Google said in a statement: “Quality raters are employed by our suppliers and are temporarily assigned to provide external feedback on our products. Their ratings are one of many aggregated data points that help us measure how well our systems are working, but do not directly impact our algorithms or models.” GlobalLogic declined to comment for this story." (emphasis mine)

How is this not a straight up lie? For this to be true they would have to throw away labeled training data.

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teiferer ◴[13 Sep 25 13:01 UTC] No.45231758[source]▶
Key word: "directly"

It does so indirectly, so it's a true albeit misleading statement.

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1. skybrian ◴[13 Sep 25 17:40 UTC] No.45233857[source]▶
It's not part of the inner feedback loop. It's part of the outer feedback loop that they use to decide if the inner loop is working.