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"In dusty factories, cramped internet cafes and makeshift home offices around
the world, millions of people sit at computers tediously labelling data.
These workers are the lifeblood of the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI)
industry. Without them, products such as ChatGPT simply would not exist. That’s
because the data they label helps AI systems “learn”.
But despite the vital contribution this workforce makes to an industry which is
expected to be worth US$407 billion by 2027, the people who comprise it are
largely invisible and frequently exploited. Earlier this year nearly 100 data
labellers and AI workers from Kenya who do work for companies like Facebook,
Scale AI and OpenAI published an open letter to United States President Joe
Biden in which they said:
Our working conditions amount to modern day slavery.
To ensure AI supply chains are ethical, industry and governments must urgently
address this problem. But the key question is: how?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
