Tired of AI Billionaires Screwing Up the World? You Won’t Like This - Empire of AI, Karen Hao: Book Review, Part 2

Empire of AI by Karen Hao exposes the hidden workers behind ChatGPT. Content moderators in Kenya, Venezuela, and Colombia paid pennies to train OpenAI’s models.

In this episode, Mark gets spicy, Jeremy gets angry and the world wakes up to the human cost of training ChatGPT.

It's an Empire of AI book review, but not as you know it.

📖 The hidden labor that trains ChatGPT and other large language models

📖 How Big Tech silences critical voices while racing ahead with AI

📖 Why “ethical AI” often ignores the people actually building it

📖 What Empire of AI reveals about the future of humanity and power    

And please, stay disruptive, stay curious, keep thinking on paper.

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(00:00) Trailer

(02:00) Introduction to Empire of AI & Karen Hao

(03:41)Shifting power dynamics in Silicon Valley

(03:59) Karen Hao’s warnings in Empire of AI

(04:56) Humanity V the relentless race for scale

(06:32) The environmental impact of AI systems

(07:38) Stochastic parrots: Silencing Critics

(09:48) Sam Altman Loves A Military Quote

(10:53) What Cost Humanity?

(15:14) The global race for AI advancement

(18:32) The hidden labor behind ChatGPT

(25:07) The ethical dilemma at the heart of AI development