2023-01-18
every single advance in artificial intelligence is built on the backs of thousands of people's gruelling, grinding, human labour https://twitter.com/...
TIME
Investigation: starting in November 2021, OpenAI contracted Kenya-based Sama to label violent and toxic content, paying workers $2/hour, to improve ChatGPT
Content warning: this story contains descriptions of sexual abuse — ChatGPT was hailed as one 2022's most impressive technological … Mastodon: @karengregory@mastodon.scot , @pari...
2022-12-17
“We were also forbidden to say “I'm not a bot”, because “I'm not a bot” is exactly what a bot would say.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
n+1
A worker who served as a fallback for a real estate AI chatbot for $25/hour details the experience of pretending to be a bot as part of a sixty-strong team
a human pretending to be a robot pretending to be a human! https://www.nplusonemag.com/ ... @frankpasquale : “I wasn't really training Brenda to think like a human. Brenda was trai...
2022-10-10
I'm glad to learn that gifs are dying, and I have serenely witnessed their rise and fall without ever learning how to use them https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are “cringe” and MP4 videos make the format outdated
2022-10-09
I'm glad to learn that gifs are dying, and I have serenely witnessed their rise and fall without ever learning how to use them https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are “cringe” and MP4 videos make the format outdated
The internet's file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence. Tweets: @apollozac , @ianbetteridge , @cooksipgo , @kendallbaker , @laurens...