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Employees say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support. Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson.

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[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

tools to strip the best parts of humanity away from us so that AI can do creative activities like poetry and art

Yeah that's a bullshit take on AI

[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But that's exactly what's happening. Bloodsucking capitalists have decided that AI is a cheaper option than paying people a living wage, so creatives are losing their jobs.

Instead of actually learning how to create art, shitbag grifters claim theyre "taking the power back from creatives" and doing nothing but stealing from actual creatives to make some sort of soulless synthesis, leaving actual creatives high and dry. For just one example, look at how many publishing outlets have stopped taking submissions because of the overwhelming flood of AI spam.

All the while people are out here trying to make ends meet and are being forced into shitty, low paid jobs or gig work

I think he/she was referring to the sole purpose of AI being developed is to create an additional subscription model that serves both ads and bullshit, locked to infrastructure of google or metas choice.

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your complaint here is entirely with capitalism and has nothing to do with AI. It's a legitimate concern, but it;s fart larger problem than new ways of making pictures. Aim your opprobrium at the correct targets

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's nothing to elaborate on. It's a stupid position put about by luddites and perpetuated by people with no understanding of the subject. It's so not on target it's not even wrong!

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a DevOps engineer. I work with big technology every day. I am very definitively not a Luddite. But the way the capitalists controlling our economy view and want to use AI is harmful to us, the lower and middle classes. I'm not sure which part of my view is so stupid that it enters into psuedoscience, leading me to not even being wrong

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You're so close. Keep going. Where's the root cause of the problem?

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could not make it any clearer I think the root cause is capitalism. That you're putting the focus elsewhere is exhausting

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No I agree. Keep going... Why are you therefore daemonising AI rather than focusing your ire where it belongs?

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I'm not demonizing AI. I'm demonizing OpenAI, the shitty company. I'm demonizing CEOs and publishing executives who think they can pass off an inferior product vomited out by a robot record scratching the entire history of human creativity while we get stuck doing bullshit jobs for Uber, DoorDash, Fiverr, and the rest.

You think I have a position on AI that I don't and it's exhausting repetitively explaining to you that I don't think AI is the problem, I think capitalism is. What part of what I am saying is not clear? Why do you want to treat me like a moron luddite for something I don't believe and didn't say? I'm more and more getting the impression that you and I are on the same page about this but you're inserting a position onto me I do not hold.

That's why I said this is exhausting. In fact you're exhausting. In fact, I feel like I'm being a jerk and I'm starting to think you're a jerk

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)