‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI

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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. zenmac ◴[13 Sep 25 22:03 UTC] No.45235687[source]▶

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>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.

Many experts are holding out, and I don't blame them. Why would you want to train AI to replace your job?

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2. brookst ◴[13 Sep 25 22:08 UTC] No.45235724[source]▶

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For the paycheck? For many people, ideological concerns and years-out possible downsides are less important than putting food on the table.

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3. pydry ◴[13 Sep 25 22:32 UTC] No.45235847[source]▶

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Because while the fever dreams of capitalists do not always pan out you do always need a paycheck to make rent.

4. throwawaysleep ◴[13 Sep 25 22:47 UTC] No.45235910[source]▶

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Alternative is someone else does it and now you neither have money or AI training.

It has never been a successful strategy to try and fight new technology. Never.

5. thwarted ◴[13 Sep 25 23:39 UTC] No.45236207[source]▶

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Jeez, the reading comprehension in the other replies is really bad. The "Why would you…" sentence is meant to support the observation that many experts are holding out and have no need to be involved with this training, not meant to ask why people like to get paid.

6. zenmac ◴[14 Sep 25 13:27 UTC] No.45239617[source]▶

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That would be great in a idealistic world where the establishment is not building a control grid using surveillance capitalism rather use the technology to benefit the anology world. In the current geo-political climate the question is do one want to get paid to build one's own digital prison?

Only training the experts should be doing is the ones that is self-hosted or through community of people one trust! Currently none of the big corp qualifies, not sure if the structure of big corp (that it is a person-hood) is capable of creating anything beneficial in the long run.

Why should the big companies benefit from your expertise to build centralize their control?

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