The intelligence that is attributed to the machine is people. Those people are often low paid workers in the majority world who are employed to affix labels to images and catalog text snippets. The ground truth that informs these models on, you know, how to interpret data they are given is provided by this huge and unheralded workforce.
Featuring Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.
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