Not to me. The tone of your message -- and it comes across loud and clear -- is that there is *something* about the behavior of tech companies that distresses you. But what could that be?
What could these companies do differently that would appease your feelings? Fire these kids? Do you think that they and thei…
Not to me. The tone of your message -- and it comes across loud and clear -- is that there is *something* about the behavior of tech companies that distresses you. But what could that be?
What could these companies do differently that would appease your feelings? Fire these kids? Do you think that they and their families would then be better off? I somehow doubt you would endorse that, but I might be wrong. Just spell it out for me. What do you want? What would you want if you lived in one these countries?
That's not the point of my article. I don't have an answer to that question. Perhaps the developed world could stop taking more than they ethically should.
But my point is something else. It is to let you know that the AI companies promising the stars are stepping on the labor of the most vulnerable people in the world. Is this really necessary? Isn't there a more ethical way to do things? If you don't think so, then this article is not for you.
Hi Fred, if you're genuinely curious about the millions of humans who work on cleaning up the data to train LLMs and are largely invisible to us & exploited, give this listen: https://irlpodcast.org/season7/episode2/
>> I think it's pretty clear
Not to me. The tone of your message -- and it comes across loud and clear -- is that there is *something* about the behavior of tech companies that distresses you. But what could that be?
What could these companies do differently that would appease your feelings? Fire these kids? Do you think that they and their families would then be better off? I somehow doubt you would endorse that, but I might be wrong. Just spell it out for me. What do you want? What would you want if you lived in one these countries?
That's not the point of my article. I don't have an answer to that question. Perhaps the developed world could stop taking more than they ethically should.
But my point is something else. It is to let you know that the AI companies promising the stars are stepping on the labor of the most vulnerable people in the world. Is this really necessary? Isn't there a more ethical way to do things? If you don't think so, then this article is not for you.
Hi Fred, if you're genuinely curious about the millions of humans who work on cleaning up the data to train LLMs and are largely invisible to us & exploited, give this listen: https://irlpodcast.org/season7/episode2/
What to do about it? Well, that's a much larger conversation, but here's a good place to start: https://consilienceproject.org/technology-is-not-values-neutral-ending-the-reign-of-nihilistic-design-2/