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Big Tech Is Faking AI (yt.artemislena.eu)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This might be the most awfully absurd thing that could ever happen.

“We got perfectly capable humans doing that job pretending to be AIs so that we can sell more incapable AIs services, AND prevent the AI bubble from bursting. Gotta make some big $$$ out of this shit, 2008 style baby”

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Lest anyone think this is a new scam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

It's also worth noting that this is famous enough that Amazon has offered a service called Mechanical Turk since 2005.

The implementation and service are both fine in theory, but you do need to be clear that what's being paid for is humans pretending to be computers.