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Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money (www.404media.co)
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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They're mainly used to train AI so that would be a bad move

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Many companies are using AI to generate AI training data. Most of them are data brokers where the margins are becoming razor thin. It's totally a bad idea, but it is definitely happening.