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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: 0.218s | source
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simianwords ◴[13 Sep 25 13:58 UTC] No.45232121[source]▶
Their work doesn’t seem that bad. This article tries really hard to portray that a simple freelance desk job is somehow literally exploitation or something.

Lots of people would do anything to get such work.

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1. paczki ◴[14 Sep 25 15:25 UTC] No.45240497[source]▶
To be honest, this job has changed my entire life. I don't exactly work with Google but nonetheless it's the same job being discussed. Nothing really egregious has happened to me in the months that I've been at it, other than only having 4 hours to fact check and verify a huge amount of information for one job, and it just wasn't enough time for me so I didn't get paid. But that was once out of hundreds? thousands? of tasks.

Unfortunately, I decided to take software engineering more serious and try to make it my career and then the entire market nosedived, with no signs of recovering anytime soon. Breaking into this market has more or less been impossible for a junior, and dare I say: a junior in their mid 30s. At least within this job I do get to work with code every so often, and I get to do it from home while I'm at it which is a bonus.

It's inconsistent so I'm still learning and looking for software, but for the meantime it's been incredible.