The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI | MIT Technology Review
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It’s a practice that could introduce further errors into already error-prone models.
The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found. It takes an incredible amount of data to train AI systems to perform specific tasks accurately and reliably. Many companies pay gig workers on platforms like Mechanical Turk to complete tasks that are typically hard to automate, such as solving CAPTCHAs, labeling data and annotating text. This data is then fed into AI models to train them. The workers are poorly paid
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