Open AI uses mechanical Turk, which is the closest you can get to slave labor while still technically paying somebody, except for prison labor I guess.
Yup…I’ve had the displeasure of being on that thing for a few months some years back. I couldn’t shrug the feeling of feeling like a sweatshop worker. “Ah yes, do these menial tasks that’ll take you 40 minutes of your time to earn…5 cents! woo!”
They originally paid Nigerians a pittance to look at horrific material all day to weed it out of the training and gave them very little in terms of mental health treatment for them.
Open AI uses mechanical Turk, which is the closest you can get to slave labor while still technically paying somebody, except for prison labor I guess.
Yup…I’ve had the displeasure of being on that thing for a few months some years back. I couldn’t shrug the feeling of feeling like a sweatshop worker. “Ah yes, do these menial tasks that’ll take you 40 minutes of your time to earn…5 cents! woo!”
I always assumed that shit only made sense if you were living in a place with very low cost of living when paid in US dollars.
It doesn’t pay nearly enough as a good source of income.
There’s a very stingy and narrow set of requirements you have to meet before you see or even do dollar-amount tasks.
If you’re docked by a single ‘Requester’ aka your micro-bosses on there, then your chances slip.
So, I can’t recommend Amazon Machine Turk to anyone. Only do it for beer money. Don’t do it for a living income.
They originally paid Nigerians a pittance to look at horrific material all day to weed it out of the training and gave them very little in terms of mental health treatment for them.