Posted by Brajeshwar 1 day ago
Any technology that creates "sysiphian" tasks, is not worth anyones time. That includes LLMs, and "Big Data". The "herculean effort" that never ends is the proof in the pudding. The tech doesnt work.
Its like using machine learning for self driving instead of having an actual working algorythm. Your bust.
In that case, how is the notion of truthiness (what the model accepts as right or wrong) affected during this stage , that is affected by human beings vs. it being sealed into the basic model itself, that is truthiness being deduced by the method / part of its world model.
I used to point to their reporting as something that my nation’s newspapers should seek to emulate.
(My nation’s newspapers have since fallen even lower.)
Or join an hospital as nurse, but then you are asked to perform surgery as you were a doctor?
There are serious issues outlined in the article.
Or the one about handling disturbing concted with no previous warning and no consueling
This was one of the first links I found re: Scale’s labor practices https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/scale-ai-is-facing-a-third...
Here’s another: https://relationaldemocracy.medium.com/an-authoritarian-work...
My understanding is they performed work and were paid for it at market rate. So just regular capitalism. Or was there more to it?
Global south nations do not have the same level of Judicial recourse, work safety norms, and health infrastructure as does, say, America. So people doing labelling work who then go ahead and kill themselves after getting PTSD, are just costs of doing business.
This can be put under many labels, to transfer the objectionable portion to some other entity or ideology - in your case "capitalism".
That doesn't mean it is actually capitalism. In this case it's exploitating gaps in global legal infrastructure.
I used to bash capitalism happily, but its becoming a white whale, and catch all. We don't even have capitalism anywhere, since you can get far too many definitions for that term today.
But the next paradigm breakthrough is hard to forecast, and the current paradigm's asymptote is just as hard to predict, so it's +EV to say "tomorrow" and "forever".
When the second becomes clear before the first, you turk and expert label like it's 1988 and pray that the next paradigm breakthrough is soon, you bridge the gap with expert labeling and compute until it works or you run out of money and the DoD guy stops taking your calls. AI Winter is cold.
And just like Game of Thrones, no I mean no one, not Altman, not Amodei, not Allah Most Blessed knows when the seasons in A Song of Math and Grift will change.
That’s sort of what I expect the Guardian’s UK online non-sub readers to make.
Perhaps GlobalLogic should open a subsidiary in the UK?