Is that seriously an “AI is like a child” poster made to motivate workers?
AI companies should like to treat humans like machines, while humanizing machines.
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
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XLE@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Darkness343@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Aren’t humans just faulty organic machines anyways?
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
What a disgusting philosophy to have towards others. Please keep it to yourself.
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
To them, yeah. Worst part is they have to pay us enough to “live happily” instead of just keeping us in a box
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, we are, but people hate hearing that by the looks of your downvotes. 🤷♂️
Shameless@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m honestly so sick of this sick world we live in. Lately it just seems like the veil has slipped and we can see how truly depraved the rich and powerful are and we are not able to do anything significant to change it.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
We are, but we’d have to give up a lot.
However, they keep taking more and more. So how long before they take enough that giving up the rest is worth it?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Rotten, sure. Nothing new. It’s been a top/down rule for all of human history.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The sick world you live in is online. It’s not real. The world you see through your black mirror isn’t the same as the one you see outside the window. News has always been a litany of human misery. Online news is pure and condensed human suffering.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Working in EMS feels like this, only you get paid worse somehow
FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At least you’re doing something valuable
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That bowling pin isn’t gonna extricate itself from that rectum
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dude… this is insane. This kind of work should be done by law enforcement or something. Certainly by somebody who has seen plenty of video evidence in their lifetime. By somebody who has regular visits with a mental health specialist as a work requirement. Unbelievable the things the tech industry will save on and how little they care about people. Why don’t they have their own damn family members watch all that deranged crap?
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As much as I hate to say it, law enforcement are people too. Not good people, but people.
Nobody should have to do a job that injured them, physically or mentally.
PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
That’s 100% a stupid take.
There are many dangerous jobs that NEED to be done.
And the people who do the jobs to keep your soft ass safe should be honored and well compensated.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People watch hours of traumatic content all day voluntarily.
How many people have you seen being killed this year? Probably more than most people ever see in their entire lives (before computers).
That trauma adds up for everyone
nucleative@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I now avoid all videos showing deaths or serious injuries (if I know that kind of content is coming).
Feels better to not have those images in my mind.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The same thing happens, to a much lesser extent, when you read emotionally charged headlines. Having your mental health being constantly bombarded with outrage, anger, fear, etc may be good for social media companies and their Engagement metrics, but it’s very bad for each individual (and also society).
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
“None” is not a huge number.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It has been long time since social media cared about showing us things that we wanted to see.
There have been several shootings that have had massive social media impact, you may have avoided them (and you did the right thing) but a huge amount of people experienced witnessing their first shooting death and maybe 2nd, 3rd and 4th this year. That’s a lot of cumulative psychological stress being inflicted on society and it isn’t like we’re living in a world that is otherwise a calming paradise…
Social media is inflicting real harms and the people in control don’t seem very motivated to try to control them. Or, they did try in tests and determined that Engagement was more profitable and they’re shielded from the externalities.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
Why would i want to watch someone die?
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
That trauma adds up for everyone
if they bitchass
does he look like a bitch?
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I know it’s a horrible job, but at this point I wouldn’t mind trading some sanity to pay the bills.
Crazy world.
PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
These women are GLOBAL heroines.
They absolutely should be treated as such.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They use AI to pre-select training data anyway. Can’t they categorize good content with it? White box vs. black box.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Who do you think will train the AI to whitelist things?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The filter-AI that is itself trained to recognize only good content. Right now, they use all, except some bad.
Blo0dixte4rz@hilariouschaos.com 2 weeks ago
Yes, this should be left to professionals who are trained and conditioned for this type of service: myself just having witnessed these types of interactions both personally and on the outside, can only imagine how that goes if it were day in and day out. I’m so messed up from those. GL
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This world we create is so disgusting. Tech billionaires paying the least possible amount for “work” which borders slavery. And everyone seems to be OK with it.
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s not just that it’s slavery, but it’s literally destroying the people doing it. Being exposed to so much horrendous content has lasting impact. It’s like the coal mines (or any number of other body destroying examples) but it’s not lungs that suffer, it’s the brain.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’d argue that every kind of slavery literally destroys the slaves…kinda by definition :-( But yeah, this “job” is horrible. Especially if you don’t even know what will suddenly hit you after you applied for a seemingly harmless job.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I would say that it wasn’t us, the ordinary people, who created this terrible world, but we definitely allowed the worst among us to do so - and we even rewarded them for it, so that this monstrous world is now ruled by the most ruthless, like a monarchy that was believed to have been overcome. Apparently, civilizational progress is not bound to the passage of time, because I strongly suspect that we are regressing civilizational: back to absolutism with its degenerate rulers who give free rein to their perverse desires - and they can do so, because they are at the top of a society they exploit with impunity.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well put and yes, that’s sadly true. We just sit there and watched people seize control who should never have had ANY kind of control over anything in the first place. This species sadly highly rewards the psychological dark triad (or tetrad) so well, it hurts. The worst that humanity has to offer has the highest chance to lead it. Not even a question of sex or race or anything, it’s just us.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Social media was a mistake.
The first few years was just about fun and sharing high points of our lives. But then just came the fringers, the lechers, and the extremists, before entities like Cambridge Analytica arrived with the idea social media could be used to manipulate the masses.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
absolutely. Social media is a malign cancer of the web AND real life. I was there (3000 years ago) when the internet begun, it hurts so much to see how social media did spread the rot. As if the other rot by google and the majority of big tech wasn’t enough already.
Yeah the irony of us dissing social media…on Lemmy 😁