The "Overworked, Underpaid" Shadow Human Work Force Running AI
As the “AI Bubble” continues to grow, with almost nobody refuting that spending on AI in the U.S. is currently a huge bubble anymore, another problem was exposed this week as hundreds of human laborers who are used to train these AI models, have begun to be laid off.
They are most certainly not being laid off because the AI chat models they are working on now no longer need human intervention, because they ALL continue to “hallucinate” and provide false and dangerous information, over two and half years after the rollout of these AI chat bots.
The Guardian published on article on the current situation with Google this week: “How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart.”
One of the most amazing things revealed in this article is that many of these people who are employed to moderate the chat bots and train them have stated that they themselves do not even use these AI chat bots anymore because they know how worthless, and sometimes dangerous, they are, and they also recommend to their friends and families not to use them.
Big Tech’s dirty secret for many years now is the fact that these “ghost human laborers” who are paid slave wages are necessary to keep all of their technology running behind the scenes.
Human labor runs the technology, not the other way around, and it always has been that way, and always will be.