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‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI

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283 points Brajeshwar | 3 comments | 13 Sep 25 11:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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onlinehost ◴[13 Sep 25 13:49 UTC] No.45232069[source]▶
I'm a contractor for one of these companies. It pays okay ($45+/hour) if you can pass qualifications for your area of expertise but the work isn't steady and communication is non-existent. The coding qualifications I did were difficult FAANG algorithm analysis questions. The work has definitely gotten harder over the last year and often says we need to come up with Masters/PhD level work or problems that someone with 5+ years of experience in a field would have difficulty solving. I wish I had a regular job but I live in rural North Carolina and remote work is hard to come by.
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1. shdwbnndvpn ◴[13 Sep 25 18:57 UTC] No.45234436[source]▶
How often do encounter difficult content? Like gore, violence, hate, etc.? I would think prompts would keep that out of responses, is that naive of me?
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3. aleph_minus_one ◴[13 Sep 25 22:28 UTC] No.45235829[source]▶
> How often do encounter difficult content? Like gore, violence, hate, etc.?

Honest question: of course, everybody would prefer to work with "lovely" stuff, but I really have difficulties getting what people find so much difficult/hard about jobs where you encounter such content on a screen (the same holds for moderation jobs).

I would claim that I have seen the internet, and I guess many people of my generation have, too (just to be insanely clear: of course not the kind stuff that is hardcore criminal in basically all jurisdictions worldwide - I don't want to get more explicit here).

I wouldn't say I am blunted, but I do think I could handle this stuff without any serious problems as part of my job. I'd thus rather compare it in terms of emotional comfort with a toilet cleaner who sometimes also has to clean very filthy toilets - which is just an ordinary job that some people in society have to do.